acroread package in Feisty

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:25 -0800, Rares Vernica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why isn't acroread part of Feisty? It is part of Edgy.

Because Feisty is in development and cannot reasonably be expected to
have all the features of a stable release?

> Is there any workaround to get the application?

Try to go here [1], download the *.deb files and try to install by
doubleclicking.

Alternatively, try apt pinning [2]

[1]
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=1&version=edgy&release=all&keywords=acroread

[2]
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning