Adobe Acroread 32 Bit On 64 Bit Karmic-How?

[NoOp]

On 10/08/2009 06:12 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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> Yes, my experience exactly.  I had both canonical partner and
> medibuntu repos enabled but after updating and aptitude search/show
> acroread nothing was found. 

acroread is there. Unfortunately on karmic it shows an outdated version
9.1.0-7, whereas in jaunty it is 9.1.3:

Jaunty:

$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.1.3-1jaunty1
  Candidate: 9.1.3-1jaunty1
  Version table:
 *** 9.1.3-1jaunty1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Karmic:

$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.1.0-7jaunty2
  Candidate: 9.1.0-7jaunty2
  Version table:
 *** 9.1.0-7jaunty2 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Note that I do not have medibutu repositories enabled on the karmic
machine, only partner repositories.

They are, for some reason picking the older, version:
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/acroread/

Note that for your 64bit system, there is:
acroread_9.1.3-1jaunty1_amd64.deb 04-Aug-2009 21:04 60M

Only bad thing about googling is that
> there is a lot of obsolete info on the web. AFAIK, there is no way to
> download acroread from a ubuntu related repo anymore at least on
> Karmic. 

See above.

Strange and I don't know why it's that way today. I did have
> the ver 9.1.3 downloaded from the Adobe site but got confused because
> Karmic defaults to putting downloads in the Downloads dir in Home
> instead of in Desktop folder I'm so used to. 

That is simply the job of your web browser. Anytime you install a new
web browser it is advisable to go through the preferences first & set it
up the way that you wish. For Firefox: Edit|Preferences|Downloads|Save
files to...

I discovered that with
> Doug's tip to right click the download link when the download app
> showed the Download folder as default. More sneaky Ubuntu changes-:o)

No. Setting the default to the Downloads folder makes much more sense
than downloading stuff to your desktop.

> Once I found the download(and I remember looking there before and it
> wasn't there), I just installed it with dpkg --force-architecture and
> have used it since with out any problem.  The strangest thing about
> this whole issue is that you can't find acroread in the ubuntu repos
> any more.  

See my first comments. They are in the partner repository. On my 32bit
system it installed the jaunty (outdated) version from the partner repo
(I installed via Synaptic). I'd file a bug regarding the version, but
doesn't seem worth it as this stage.

Hope that changes as I prefer to use the repos rather than
> downloading from the net. Thanks for your comments, Leonard
> Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
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