Adobe Acroread 32 Bit On 64 Bit Karmic-How?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 10/8/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Adobe Acroread 32 Bit On 64 Bit Karmic-How?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 12:31 PM
> On 10/08/2009 06:12 AM, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> ...
> > 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 outdated version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:
> 
I presume by your statement that when you enter
aptitude or apt-cache show acroread that you get some output on acroread.  In my case I don't.
See what apt-cache policy gives me below.

> Jaunty:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
>   Installed: 9.1.3-1jaunty1
> 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 system it installed the jaunty (outdated) version from the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,
>   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
> 
I don't get that on my 64 bit, I get:
apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


l/partner/a/acroread/
> 
> Note that for your 64bit system, there is:
> acroread_9.1.3-1jaunty1_amd64.deb 04-Aug-2009 21:04 60M
> 
I installed the 9.1.3 version but it was the i386 version and probably a jaunty also. Where did you get the 64 bit version, from Adobe?

> 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...
> 
Now that the confusion is over on my part I'll keep it in Downloads as it does make more sense.
Just didn't expect it.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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