Acroread (Acrobat reader) not working

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 08:48 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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
> 

Look at the wiki's howto.  

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AcrobatHowTo/view?searchterm=acrobat

I just had to do what it says there to make it work.  I don't know what
changed because this was working fine a few months ago.

Santiago