Adobereader won't install

[JD]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

>
> On 06/29/2014 02:23 PM, 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
>
>
>  See if your distro has atril available. It's quite superior to okular.
> However, nothing is altogether as good as adobe. Those guys invented pdfs.
>

​Instead, install evince pdf reader. it is in the Fedora repos.
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