Adobe Acroread 32 Bit On 64 Bit Karmic-How?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Kenneth.bengtsson <kenneth.bengtsson at brednett.no> wrote:

> From: Kenneth.bengtsson <kenneth.bengtsson at brednett.no>
> Subject: Re: Adobe Acroread 32 Bit On 64 Bit Karmic-How?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:21 PM
> It should be a 64 bit release of
> acroread for linux too. If not try   
> too find a other pdf reader that support the 64 bit
> arcitecture.  The  
> dokument reader inn ubuntu should read pdf files
> 
Well, Adobe doesn't have a 64 bit acroread that I could find googling or searching the site.  However, I'll keep dokument reader in mind if the dpkg --force-architecture doesn't work.  At least I found the download thanks to Douglas Knapp.  I'll keep watching the list in case some other info comes up.  thanks to all.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

> Mvh
> Kenneth Bengtsson
> 
> Den 7. okt. 2009 kl. 23.04 skrev Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
>  >:
> 
> > Did my homework, googled(for 2 days), discoveed only
> 32 bit acroread  
> > available of linux, found the Adobe download site and
> tried to  
> > download
> > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1.3/enu/AdbeRdr9.1.3-1_i386linux_enu.deb
> 
> > .  I suppose that the "enu" stands for English
> language, maybe  
> > universal or something to that effect. I started the
> download and it  
> > appeared to download(status bar shows progress until
> it completes  
> > then nothing.  Can't find the download in my
> Desktop or anywhere  
> > else.  sudo updatedb followed by locate
> <filename shown above> only  
> > returns the cursor line.  During the download or
> as it is finishing  
> > a popup appears(gdebi I think) saying its the wrong
> architecture  
> > appears and I know that but why doesn't the default FF
> browser  
> > download it.  If it did, I would use sudo dpkg
> --force-architecture  
> > <file name.deb> to install it as I did for my
> Brother printer which  
> > worked ok. Always have been able to download from the
> internet  
> > before?  read the ubuntu howtos.  However,
> Canonical and medibuntu  
> > don't have or wont download acroread.
> > Would appreciate any who can tell me how:
> >
> > find a ubuntu or canonical repo to download acroread
> >
> > or why the file wouldn't download with ff-3.5 on
> Karmic Beta
> >
> > or any help to get acroread installed on my Beta
> install because
> > I want acroread instead of a ubuntu substitute.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >
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