Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....
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On 07/28/07 14:33, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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>> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....
>> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:37:23 -0500
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> On 07/28/07 13:20, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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>>> From: Tommi Asiala <tommi@asiala.info>
>>> To: Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com>
>>> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>> Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....
>>> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:52:50 +0300
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>>> Hi Michael,
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>>> To us to help you with the installing from tarball we would have to
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>>> what you did. Your vague information on that part doesn't help.
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>> OK. I infer from this that there is no deb file and so you have to
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>> around with the tarball.
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> On the contrary. Here's the sources.list entry:
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org $BRANCH main
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> Then,
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
> # apt-get install acroread
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>> OK, I did all this. It worked OK but it didn't install acroread.... So
>> then I seached the web and it seemed to say that maybe there isn't a
>> version of acroread for and AMD64 box (which I am using).
Hmmm, well, yes, that's a (actually, *the*) problem all right.
>> There is some chroot trick that can get the i386 deb file to work.
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>> Perhaps the tarball had no chance after all.
A chroot will probably work. You could probably put the Macromedia
Flash player in the same chroot.
There are a plethora of web pages that show you how to set up such a
jail.
>> But maybe I still have to little faith and I have been reading old web
>> pages and there IS an amd64 acroread deb file after all....
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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