Adobe

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, John Arkoulis wrote:

> Hi all. New to Linux and of course to Fedora. So far my experience has
> been more than positive :)
> Now here is my first question.
> I downloaded Adobe Acrobat reader. I untar it?? (sorry I lack in Linux
> jargon, I mean unzipped it) and then the instructions say to run the
> shell command. I run the command and I only get the licence agreement
> with the option to Close or Cancel. Whatever I choose the program does
> not install. I tried it as user and as Root with the same results.
> Does anyone has Acrobat installed in his computer and is there any
> workaround to this problem?
> I use Fedora core 1 on a P4 2.8 with 1GB ram if this matters.
> Thanks and looking forward to a virus and bag free life with Linux.
> John

It's generally a good idea to look for RPMs for programs (even commercial
ones)  before installing from tarballs.  In the case of Acrobat Reader,
there are RPMs at dag.wieers.com, and there may be other sources as well.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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