FC6: AdobeReader problem

[Colin J Thomson - G6AVK]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:00 am, Gary Morain wrote:
> I recently upgraded from RC5 to FC6, and now Adobe Reader acroread is
> having problems.  At first, I was having the same problem that was
> being reported earlier, namely that acroread loops forever while
> printing the message 'expr: syntax error'.  And so I applied the
>
> change mentioned by Chris on 10/28/06 wherein he wrote:
> > 1) Edit the file /usr/bin/acroread
> >
> > 2) Replace the line (originally line 418):
> > echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*
> > \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
> >
> > ...with the line:
> > echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*
> > \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
>
> Now, acroread just exits immediately, without doing anything.

You also need to change this line:

644#    MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
645    MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"

I just did the changes tonight and all is well now here :)

HTH

-Colin
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