Adobereader won't install

[Mickey]

On 06/29/2014 05:10 PM, Stephen Morris 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
>
>
>
>

I deleted the ~/.adobe/Acrobat directory and restarted acroread, and it 
attempts to run and then immediately shuts down.
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