Re: Installing Acrobat Reader

[Chris A Czerwinski <chrisczerwinski cogeco ca>]

Hi Fredeirc,

In my case I downloaded 2 RPMS as Jim Hayward recommended
Just go to gurulabs.com and grab the RPMS.

http://gurulabs.com/downloads.html

So it would also work with my browser and offer it as a choice.

using the following command as SU

RPM -ivh --force acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
RPM -ivh --force acroread-plugin-5.08-2.i386.rpm

Then Stephen Walton found a work around the acroread which is a script 

Next SU I edited the file acroread script 
using vim or you could use your favorite editor emacs or pico

so in in my case it was in      /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread 
and in your case it would be    /usr/local/bin/acroread

by adding the following as lines 4,5,6

#Work around until Acrobat gets Unicode locale support
LANG=C
LC_ALL=C

# and just before 
ver=5.0.8
install_dir= 

and it now works.

Hope this helps and Good Luck

Chris

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:45, Frederic on ImediatiX wrote:
> Hi (again),
> 
> hmm, in the mean time I found where the start-up script was and put a
> link to it from /usr/local/bin (found this on
> http://linuxheadquarters.com/howto/apps/acrobat.shtml). However it still
> does not work : 
> 
> $ acroread
> Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1".
> Aborted
> $
> 
> All help is welcome.
> 
> Thanks.
> Frederic
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:29, Frederic on ImediatiX wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I'm trying to learn about linux and how to use it. Please direct me to a
> > better suited list for beginners if you think I ask too basic questions.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > I downloaded Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux and installed it : i.e. I ran
> > the INSTALL script (under root). I did this because I couldn't open
> > VMware PDFs with the default RH9 application 'ggv'. Now how do I 
> > 
> > - launch acrobat
> > 
> > - tell my system to use Acrobat reader as default application for PDFs ?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Kind regards,
> > Frederic
> > 
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