Open a pdf from a url

Sarangan Thuraisingham sarangan.thuraisingham at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 02:31:01 UTC 2005


Wade Smart wrote:
> 11152005 1818 GMT-5
> 
> How can I open a pdf from a url if I cant get the plug-in for firefox to 
> install?
> 
> Im still having these issues:
> 
> wadesmart at wadesmart:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread
> 
> Password:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 
> mozilla-acroread is already the newest version.
> 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com 
> breezy/multiverse  Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubunutu_dists_breezy_multiverse 
> _binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> 
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> 
> 
> Wade
> 
  Why don't you right click and save it to disk. Then you can just open 
it with xpdf or acroread or evince ....

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Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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