Re: Acrobat 7

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 07:28, David Baron wrote:
>Tarball installs fine but one must change /usr/bin/acroread to point
> to the installed path.
>
>Making a .deb out of the rpm using alien will not work because of
> the existing acroread-debian-files which includes the above.
> Attempts to "force" in dpkg had the net result of zeroing out that
> file so had to reinstall the existing acroread5.10 packages and
> manually edit the /usr/bin/acroread (so why not just do that in the
> first place :-)? )
>
>Installing the plugins works fine for mozilla/plugins but not for
>netscape/plugins-C6 because the script looks for plugins. Easy
> enough to replace the existing symlink.
>
>Might need to pin things down until acrobat 7 is packaged for
> debian.
>
>Anyway, nice new look. Hopefully, printing (more complex jobs) will
> work once again.

Yeah, 5.10 stumbled over that, badly at times.


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