Adobereader won't install

[Frank McCormick]

On 29/06/14 07:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
>
> 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 .



   I went to the Boy Scouts of America website using Chrome...and all
their PDF's loaded and displayed properly in Chromes built-in PDF reader.



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