Today's Jaunty updates and Acroread

[Paul S]

Nigel Ridley said the following on 04/18/2009 11:07 AM:
> Paul S wrote:
>> Nigel Ridley said the following on 04/12/2009 05:26 AM:
>>> apt-get install acroread' (all without the quotes).
>> I can't find acroread in the jaunty repos.  I just get an error that it 
>> doesn't exist.  I do have the partner repos enabled in my 
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.  Could you share your sources list or do 
>> "apt-cache policy acroread" and paste the output so I can add it to my 
>> sources list?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> paul :~$ apt-cache policy acroread
>> W: Unable to locate package acroread
>>

> nigel at nigel:~$ apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
>    Installed: 9.1.0-7jaunty1
>    Candidate: 9.1.0-7jaunty1
>    Version table:
>   *** 9.1.0-7jaunty1 0
>          500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Now I know the problem.  It's a i386 package and I'm running amd64 
architecture.  I can download the acroread.deb and use "dpkg --force-all 
-i <acroread>.deb" and it will install successfully.  It also seems to 
run ok on amd64 using the lib32 library.  Too bad they don't make it 
dual i386 and amd64.

thanks,