[Lucid] acroread/Adobe Reader

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> For those that are testing lucid & use Adobe Reader, there is an issue
> with installing acroread. The problem is that they've
> not done anything with acroread in lucid yet. On lucid I had to change
> to karmic partner repo, install acroread & then switch back to lucid
> repo after installing. Bugs are here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread
> Note that they show "9.1.0-7jaunty2" for the lucid. To add insult to
> injury, they've not even built that sorely outdated version for 64bit.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/532077
> [acroread is not being built for amd64 (Lucid)]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/542628
> [Old version of acroread for lucid]
>
> Note: stumbled across this when trying to test a pdf that crashes evince
> & okular. PDF worked ok in 32bit karmic & wanted to test on lucid 64bit.
> Only then did I find that acroread wasn't in the partner repo & went
> searching on launchpad.


Downloaded and force-installed acroread 386 9.3.1 on my Lucid 64.
Seems to be working so far.

L.

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