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Chickpea
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 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 12:37 am Post subject: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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I finally got adobe acrobat to launch. I was frustrated that it didnt work. Tried several commands and finally i noticed in the Acrobat5 directory that there is a bin directory where the program executable is stored sooooooooo
if you /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread it will work. (or wherever you put your acrobat reader package)
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 12:52 am Post subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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| Chickpea wrote: | if you /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread it will work. (or wherever you put your acrobat reader package)
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The acroread ebuild should add that to /etc/profile.env for you, so once you log out and back in (or re-source your .bashrc (or whatever the equivalent for your shell is)) that directory should be in your PATH.
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Chickpea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | he acroread ebuild should add that to /etc/profile.env for you, so once you log out and back in |
Keyword being 'should'. The ebuild didnt do that for me and so I will have to edit mine manually I suppose.
I just thought I would pass along my experience.
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| Chickpea wrote: | | Keyword being 'should'. The ebuild didnt do that for me and so I will have to edit mine manually I suppose. |
That's really weird. What version of the acroread ebuild did you use? Do you have a file /etc/env.d/10acroread5? I do, and it has: | Code: | PATH=/opt/Acrobat5
ROOTPATH=/opt/Acrobat5 |
in it. Did emerge seem to succeed when you did it, or did it terminate abnormally? | Code: | grep 10acroread /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/*.ebuild
/usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-5.05-r6.ebuild: ${D}/etc/env.d/10acroread5
/usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-5.06-r1.ebuild: ${D}/etc/env.d/10acroread5
/usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-5.06.ebuild: ${D}/etc/env.d/10acroread5 |
...so any of those ebuilds should (sorry, that word again) do this right: I wonder why yours was so unfriendly.
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Chickpea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:30 am Post subject: |
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yes, I do have the file you speak of. I was wondering however if the having /opt/Acroread/bin/acroread makes more of a difference than just have /lopt/Acrobat5.
Like I had said before the only way that I have been able to get acroread to launch was to put the complete path down.
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vers_iq
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Slightly off topic, i never really like to install any packages in /opt, dont ask me why. basically i install java, openoffice.org and acroread manually, i prefer them in /usr/lib/ |
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niyogi
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 4:21 am Post subject: |
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i don't know why acrobat looks so ugly..
but however ugly it may be, it still functions quite well 
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mario
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 4:26 am Post subject: KGhostView |
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| KGhostview uses ghostscript to display pdfs and the only annoyance is that pages are not titled ( i.e. the index is 1, 2, 3...n instead of "Contents", "Theory", "Proof", etc. But basically it is enough for me not to install acroread. And I think not a lot of KDE users would install acroread knowing how well kghostview works. |
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masseya
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I thought there was some security issue with Acroread. Has this been resolved?
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| Tristam29 wrote: | | I thought there was some security issue with Acroread. Has this been resolved? |
Yes, it was fixed in 5.05-r6. Chickpea, curiouser and curiouser. I should have read your post more carefully. My acroread binary is in /opt/Acrobat5/acroread, not inside a bin subdirectory. That explains why the efforts to put /opt/Acrobat5 in your PATH didn't do anything. Wonder how it ended up in a bin subdirectory.
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Chickpea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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I just did an rsync and there is a acroread-5.06-r1. I am assuming that is more current than the release you mentioned.
I am going to emerge the 5.06-r1 and see if it is different.
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