Re: Adobereader won't install

[Frank McCormick]

On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris
> > <[e-mail] > wrote:
> > On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> > > On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote:
> > > > yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
> > > >
> > > > Yum does install  AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I
> > > > run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing
> > > > shows in /var/log/messages.
> > > I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No
> > > longer "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive.
> > >
> > > "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF /editor/.
> > >
> > > And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old.
> > >
> > > Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader
> > > v. Okular, or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome?
> > >
> > > Temlakos
> > Hi,
> >     If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the
> > command provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its
> > files into /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable
> > and that you have read/write access to all files/folders within
> > that path. I had an issue with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it
> > produced a dialog complaining of a file read error and wouldn't
> > run, I also received the same error when I clicked on widgets to
> > add them to my development project in Windowbuilder within
> > Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in
> > ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat
> > recreated it resolved my problems.
> >
> > regards,
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > ​Forget all about adobe pdf readers
> >
> > Run
> >
> > yum -y install evince
> >
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > On my machine:
> >
> > ​
> > yum list evince
> > Installed Packages
> > evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
>
> My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America  BSA all
> their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .

I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all
their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.