Adobe Acrobat Reader for FC3?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:53:29 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 02:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > $ rpm -qa '*acror*'
> > acroread-plugin-5.0.9-0.lvn.1
> > acroread-5.0.9-0.lvn.1
> 
> I can't find that package anywhere. Where did you got it from?

It's a nosrc.rpm, which you can build and keep locally after adding
the archive which contains the prebuilt binaries.

Here's a quick'n'dirty HOWTO on building it:

  1. mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD
     mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES
     mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS/i386
  2. echo "%_topdir %(echo \$HOME)/rpm" > $HOME/.rpmmacros
  3. rpm -i http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/SRPMS.stable/acroread-5.0.9-0.lvn.1.nosrc.rpm
  4. [download Adobe Acrobat 5.0.9 at www.adobe.com]
     [save it into ~/rpm/SOURCES/linux-509.tar.gz]
  5. rpmbuild -bb ~/rpm/SPECS/acroread.spec
  6. [find the binary rpms in ~/rpm/RPMS/i386]

Alternatively, creating a local rpm build tree can be simplified and
automated with the "fedora-buildrpmtree" command which is included in
fedora.us' fedora-rpmdevtools package.

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