Q: How to install Acrobat Reader?

[Francisco Borges]

» On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:23AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:

> This has to be easy.

It is!

> I followed the instructions here:
>   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AcrobatHowTo
>
> I have the multiverse repository enabled, but I don't see "acrobat" or
> "acroread" listed in the available packages. The only one mentioning
> acrobat is "acroread-debian-files", and adept won't let me install
> that (it says "BREAK (install)").
>
> At least, I _think_ I have the multiverse repository enabled. I
> haven't been able to find anything that says "type this in
> sources.list to enable the multiverse repository" but I do have a line
> that I copied from somewhere that says:
>   deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse

The package acroread is part of the multiverse.

Perhaps you haven't "updated" your package list?

Every time you add something to the sources.list you need to update the
package list.

HTH,
-- 
Francisco