Re: sid acroread run-time error

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all
> Since installing Debian Squeeze I haven't been able to correctly
> install/run acroread. With either stable (8.1.6) or sid (9.1.3)
> versions of acroread from debian-multimedia, I am getting the
> following run-time error:
> liviu@debian-liv:~$ acroread
> /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while
> loading shared libraries: libpixman-1.so.0: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
> However,
> liviu@debian-liv:~$ locate libpixman-1.so.0
> /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0
> /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
>
> Could anyone please suggest how to get acroread working?
> Thank you
> Liviu

Those are 64bit versions of the library. Acroread is 32bit. You need
/usr/lib32/libpixman-1.so.0.

Too bad ftp-master has removed ia32-libs-tools or you could just
ia32-apt-get install libpixman-1-0.

MfG
        Goswin