Re: acroread on amd64

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello List,



Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > do you mean that there is a ready to use Debian _amd64_ package to
> > install acroread ?
>
> No, Acroread is not yet ported to 64 bits architectures. You should ask
> Adobe about it. :)

As a matter of fact the 32bit version can run with appropriate packages and fixes.

For the record, as for January 3rd 2007 and on a Etch machine:

apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
dpkg -i --force-all acroread_7.0.8-0.0_i386.deb

where acroread_7.0.8-0.0_i386.deb can be grab here
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/a/acroread/

Then in the script `/usr/bin/acroread' the line near the end

	exec "$ACRO_EXEC_CMD" ${1+"$@"}

was replaced by

	export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/
	export GCONV_PATH=/usr/lib32/gconv
	export PANGO_RC_FILE=/etc/pango32/pangorc
	export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32
	export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk.immodules.32
	exec "$ACRO_EXEC_CMD" ${1+"$@"} 2> ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/acroread-err.log

`stderr' is redirected to avoid remaining noise.

The configuration file `/etc/pango32/pangorc' had to be added, it contains:

[Pango]
ModuleFiles=/etc/pango32/pango.modules
ModulesPath=/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules
[PangoX]
AliasFiles=/etc/pango/pangox.aliases

and in the file `/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32'

/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/<WHATEVER>

must be replaced by 

/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/<WHATEVER>

The main information are here (further informations can be find there too):
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq

Otherwise, to debug I had to play with `strace' anf Google:
`strace' to figure out which files were badly opened,
and Google to get the answer (nothing new here).

I have certainly forget some other steps:
anyhow the basic idea are here.

hth,
Jerome 


> Regards

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Jerome BENOIT
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