Adobereader won't install

Mickey binarynut at comcast.net
Sun Jun 29 23:06:30 UTC 2014


On 06/29/2014 04:54 PM, Doug 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.
>
> --doug
>
>
Nothing works on the Boy Scouts of  America  BSA website but AdobeReader.

All of their forms are in PDF.

Do you know where the pdf-to-text,RPM went to , for fedora 20 ?
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