Acroread (Acrobat reader) not working

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I know this is a multiverse thing, but I'd really like to have it.  I know I can
install it manually from the Adobe installer, but I'd like to keep to
apt-get packages if possible.

It appears to be badly misconfigured.  Attempts to execute fail miserably.
The "acroread" command resolves to a shell script at /usr/bin/acroread,
which ends with the command 
   /usr/lib/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$@"

The command file does not exist.  There is an "acroread.sh" there, but if
I try that, I get an error message
   ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

Does anybody have this beast working in Ubuntu?  If so, what's the magic?

++ kevin

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD