FC6: AdobeReader problem

[Esteban Xandri]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:00 -0800, 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.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of what is going on?  I am probably missing
> some package, but I have no idea what.
> 
> Gary
> 
Check this link:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-October/msg03674.html

if you are using scim.

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