kubuntu and acroread

[Christoph Bier]

Kenneth Jacker schrieb am 03.02.2006 22:55:

> I have freshly installed kubuntu-5.10 after my hard drive died ... ;-)
> 
> My previous system was Debian/Sarge, so I thought I'd go ahead and try 
> ubuntu/kubuntu.  Unfortunately, things haven't gone too well ...
> 
> I obtained 'acroread' (and friends) from the 'multiuniverse' and installed it.
> 
> This is what I see when I attempt to run it:
> 
>   $ /usr/bin/acroread
>   /usr/bin/acroread: line 12: /usr/lib/Acrobat5/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
> 
> I've also downloaded the application from Adobe, but it doesn't work either.
> 
> Are others successfully using 'acroread'?

Yes. I downloaded the RPM from Adobe and converted it with alien to
DEB. If I leave AR open for many hours I get 100% system load and I
don't know why. But that doesn't matter because ...

> Using 'xpdf', but want to do much better,

... usually I use xpdf. Nevertheless sometimes---facing view,
searching the PDF, viewing bitmaps---AR does a better job.

Best,
  Christoph
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