Adobereader won't install

[JD]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au>
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
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