FC6 and acroread - not working

[Gene Heskett]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> Install the newest Adobe RPM from the adobe website, which for me is
> AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1
> 
> Then the attached patch fixes the problem you see in there.
> 
> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin
> 
> You know, in a terminal run "patch < acrobat.patch" in that directory.
> 
> On 11/20/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Monday 30 October 2006 02:17, Paul Smith wrote:
>> >On 10/30/06, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>> >> I got acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf.nosrc.rpm from here:
>> >>
>> >> http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/acroread/info.html
>> >>
>> >> I extracted the spec file. I downloaded the latest acroread tar.gz
>> >> from Adobe, then adjusted the spec for the new version. Then rebuilt
>> >> the acroread binary package.
>> >>
>> >> But when I launch acroread, I get a bunch of messages like this:
>> >>
>> >> expr: syntax error
>> >> expr: syntax error
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> --- acroread.orig	2006-10-28 13:28:07.000000000 +0200
>> +++ acroread	2006-10-28 13:28:52.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@
>>    if [ -z "$2" -o "$2" = "$1" ] ; then
>>      echo "$1"
>>    else
>> +
>>      first="`expr "$2" : '\([^:]*\):'`"
>>      if [ "$first" = "$1" ] ; then
>>        echo "$2"
>> @@ -409,14 +410,16 @@
>>          fi
>>  
>>     		mfile=`basename $ifile`
>> -    	echo $mfile | grep -q "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>> -
>> -   		if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>> -           return 1 
>> +    	if echo $mfile | grep -q "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9][0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>> +	then
>> +		echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9][0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
>> +		return 0
>> +	elif echo $mfile | grep -q "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>> +	then
>> +		echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\10\2\3/g'
>> +		return 0
>>          fi
>> -
>> -   		echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
>> -        return 0
>> +       	return 1 
>>      fi
>>  
>>      return 1
>> @@ -640,7 +643,7 @@
>>  # Check the version of gtk and update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH if required.
>>  
>>  if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ]; then
>> -	MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
>> +	MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"
>>  	check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path  "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"  ### returns 0 if found gtk >= 2.4
>>  fi
>>

Thanks, this appears to work.  The acid test for me will be when FF 
see's a .pdf, and calls acroread to display it.  If I can quit that w/o 
waiting around for about 1:30 before the exit x I clicked on to work, 
I'd say its fixed.

But I'm confused, my question post dates 11/20/06, and it's now 
12/08/06, so I'd very nearly forgotten about it.  A lack of short term 
memory at my age is a curse.

Thanks again.

-- 
Cheers, Gene