AcrobatReader not available via Adept?
Henri Girard
henrigira at numericable.fr
Sat Sep 16 14:08:01 UTC 2006
In fact I use edgy then I get all these packets in universe multiverse
But on dapper you may use automatix which makes many packets available and
as its name let it "understand"
automatically...
http://www.getautomatix.com
choose the version for kubuntu or ubuntu depends on what you use...
cheers
Henri
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:49:31 +0200, Nicolas Miyasato <nmiyasato at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 16/09/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Saturday 16 September 2006 02:35, john d. herron wrote:
>> >Greetings.
>> >As a rather new user of Kubuntu Dapper I tried to find and install the
>> >free Acrobat PDF Reader (crisper rendition compared to e.g. Kpdf), but
>> >it appears not to be available through Adept.
>> >Am I overlooking something? Should I simply download it from the Adobe
>> >portal, or is there perhaps a better solution?
>> >Any help will be thankfully appreciated - jdh
>>
>> AFAIK you'll have to get it from the adobe site. While its free, the
>> licensing is incompatible with the GPL, and cannot be made a part of any
>> distro that I know of.
>>
>> That said, the latest one works very nicely here.
>>
>
> I have it via apt/adept
>
> root at miya-desktop:~# apt-cache search acroread
> acroread - Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
> acroread-debian-files - Debian specific parts of Adobe Acrobat Reader
> acroread-plugins - Plugins for Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader
> mozilla-acroread - Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader plugin for mozilla / konqueror
>
> Just do what Henri Girard said.
>
> --
> miya
>
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