Re: Acroread, where are you my Acroread?

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Rob Blomquist wrote:
> I am trying to install this lovely non-OS reader for my PDFs, and I
> hear their  is one apt-gettable, but I know not where it lay. I have
> as my sources,  stable main, updates main, contrib, non-free, and
> sarge-backports.
> 
> Yes, I runneth Sarge! Thanks to you, I shall not have to downloadth
> the flaming tarball from Adobe.....

Still, unlike almost every other tarball, I found this one very easy to
install in Sarge.

After unpacking:

    tar xfz AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1.i386.tar.gz

run the INSTALL script in the newly created AdobeReader directory:

    cd AdobeReader
    ./INSTALL

and create a link from somewhere in $PATH to where you have put
adobereader7/bin/acroread during install.
For example:

    cd /usr/local/bin
    ln -s <path_to>/adobereader7/bin/acroread acroread
    chmod +x acroread

S.H.