Adobereader won't install

[Mickey]

On 06/29/2014 05:48 PM, JD wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris 
> <samorris at netspace.net.au <mailto: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
>
>

My problem is that when I get on to the Boy Scouts of America  BSA all 
their forms are in pdf and they require AdobeReader .

Would you know where I can get the pdf-to-text.rpm, I could probably 
download the pdf's from BSA website and edit them with pdf-to-text.
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