On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On 06/30/2014 04:23 AM, Temlakos wrote: > > On 06/29/2014 11:16 AM, Mickey wrote: > > yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm > > Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the > command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in > /var/log/messages. > > > I think it's because the name of the command is now changed. No longer > "acroread" but "AdobeReader." Note: that's case-sensitive. > > "Acrobat" is now reserved for the PDF *editor*. > > And by the way: the latest version is more than a year old. > > Where can we find a side-by-side feature table for Adobe Reader v. Okular, > or whatever the favored PDF viewer is for Gnome? > > Temlakos > > Hi, > If the rpm being installed is the one supplied by Adobe, the command > provided is "acroread". On my system the rpm installed its files into > /opt/Adobe, check that the acroread file is executable and that you have > read/write access to all files/folders within that path. I had an issue > with acroread, whereby when I ran it, it produced a dialog complaining of a > file read error and wouldn't run, I also received the same error when I > clicked on widgets to add them to my development project in Windowbuilder > within Eclipse. This error turned out to be a corrupt profile in > ~/.adobe/Acrobat which, when I deleted that directory, and acrobat > recreated it resolved my problems. > > regards, > Steve > > Forget all about adobe pdf readers Run yum -y install evince and be done with it. On my machine: yum list evince Installed Packages evince.x86_64 3.10.3-1.fc20 @fedora
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