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Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader in slink



Isn't the use of debian's acroread package might help a bit ?

> Matthew Edwards wrote:
> > 
> > I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader for linux and installed it on my Debian
> > 2.1 distribution (2.9.9 kernel).  When I tried to run it, first it told me
> > it couldn't find various libX... libs.  After i put that dir(/usr/X11R6/lib)
> > in the lib search path for the script, it gives me a segmentation fault.  I
> > haven't been able to run RealPlayer, or WordPerfect for linux either, for
> > similar reasons.  Is there just something wrong with my setup?
> 
> These programs often need libs that are in the oldlibs section.
> What you need to do is write down the libs that the programs are
> complaining about. then point your browser to
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages then scroll down till you
> see the Search Contents of the Latest Release search engine.
> Enter the names (one at a time) and search. You'll get a listing
> of files and the packages that contain them. Install the packages
> you should be good as gold.
> 
> hth
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