Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

[aftab alam <aftab iitk ac in>]

Hi
  You just type "LANG=C  acroread "  at the shell prompt if using 
bash.ksh or sh. Read release notes for this.

    Aftab Alam

Roger Harrington wrote:

> I have downloaded from the Adobe site, linux-506.tar.gz.
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> It seemed to successfully install into my nominated directory: -
> /usr/local/Acrobat5; well, I didn't see any error messages generated!
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> On running it by typing "acroread", I get after a couple of seconds, 
> Warning : charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1"
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> After a couple more seconds I get the word , "Aborted" appear.
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> I have copied the tgz file from another site, done a "compare" of the
> two files and there is no error, so my source data seems ok.
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> Can someone "spoonfeed" me on how to get Acrobat working?
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> TIA
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