Acrobat 7 does not run in FC4 3.92

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:35 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:55:03AM +0300, Fred New wrote:
> > Rodd Clarkson
> > On Sun 5/22/2005 1:04 AM, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 16:47 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 18:32 +1000, Chandana De Silva wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > root at chandana other]# rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386.rpm
> > > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > > >         libstdc++.so.5 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386
> > > > >         libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by
> > > > > AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386
> > > > >         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by
> > > > > AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-2.i386
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there a set of compatibility that can be installed to resolve this ?
> > > > 
> > > > Try the compat-libstdc++ package in rawhide and see if that helps.
> > > 
> > > Chandana,
> > > 
> > > It's more than likely that Acrobat is still expecting to find gcc-3.2
> > > libraries to work with.  Since Fedora has moved to gcc-4.0, you'll (more
> > > than likely) need to add the libraries above to satisfy it's needs.
> > > 
> > I have Acrobat Reader 7 running on my FC4T3 system.  You just need to
> > install compat-libstdc++-33.
> > 
> > Fred
> acroread runs on my system and I don't have  compat-libstdc++-33
> installed. First off I used the tar.gz version. When I try to download
> the rpm version form Adobe foxfire responds by going into helix-player
> for a reason I cannot fathom.

In the RealPlayer/HelixPlayer world, .rpm == Real Player Media IIRC.
Chalk it up to bad mime-type info from the server, and bad mime-type
sniffing and/or helper identification from firefox.

Dan