Adobereader won't install

[Mickey]

On 06/29/2014 06:52 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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
No error message come up in ~/.xsession-errors

  or

  from the command line in terminal when running acroread.