Re: Installing Acrobat Reader

[Frederic on ImediatiX <frederic durodie wanadoo fr>]

Hi,

Thanks for your the help below as well as to Matthew who suggested the
RPM approach as well.

In the mean time I added the couple of lines to the script which makes
it work all right now it would seem (although I understand absolutely
nothing of how it really works :-(   ).

Kind regards,
Frederic



On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:00, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> 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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