Adobereader won't install

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 14:23 -0400, 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. 

Are you starting it from the desktop or from a terminal?  If from the
desktop, is there anything in ~/.xsession-errors?

I suspect if you start it from a terminal command line, you might get
errors about missing libraries.  Externally-packaged RPMs are notorious
for not including complete lists of requirements, although the
AdobeReader RPM does list a lot of them, so maybe it's not so flagrant
an offender.

> 
> 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.

AFAICT, acroread is still the command.

        $ rpm -qf `which acroread`
        AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486

I don't have a command starting with Ado*.

> 
> 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

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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