I just downloaded adobe acrobat reader and was wondering how to install it. I got as far as extracting it. It wants me to run the install script. How do I do that. Clicking on it doesn't do anything I don't think. Thanks.

P.S. I am running fedora 1 w/ all the updates

you need to do it from the shell (command line)...

say for example you wanted to run an executable file called "install" (no quotes)... you'd do this:

./install


remember you need to be root to install something system-wide...

I installed this from Adobe also (using their INSTALL script) It put the files in /usr/local/Acrobat5 .

So now how do I have Mozilla launch Acrobat when I click on a PDF file?

I tried it and it prompts for an application to use and I point it to the acroread script (in the bin dir.). But Mozilla just seems to download the file to /tmp but it never opens in Acrobat.

If I try to execute the acroread script, I get:

Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported........
aborted

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Utah

yea its a bug but i forget the fix google around for it thats how i found it.

As root, edit the acroread script:

Add the following lines just below #! /bin/sh


I hope this solves your problem
--Ian

I'll give that a try and get back.
Thanks,
Utah

I am even more of a newbie. I just installed Linux (Fedora Core 1) yesterday and am trying to install the Acrobat reader. I haven't even gotten as far as unzipping the file. I have absolutely no idea what to do with the file. When I go to the Acrobat site I just get a tar.gz file. What am I supposed to do with this file?

Untar the file using
You should now have a directory called nameOfFile, change into it.

There will be a text file in the directory that includes installation instructions

You will probably need to edit acroread (type "vi acroread"), and add the line that I posted in and above post.


I hope this helps
--Ian

Then for the plugin to work, you will copy the file nppdf.so from the /usr/local/Acrobat5 \
/Browsers/intellinux directory to your browser's pluging directory.

If you want the program to run from the command line, make a link in your path (/usr/local/bin)
by making a symbolic link to the acroread file like this:

be root and have the # sign:

ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /usr/local/bin

and then you are in business.

If you want a desktop icon, follow your desktop's convention for creating
links to the application and you should have an icon picture to choose from
somewhere when you browse for it.

I'm still confused. I managed to get Acrobat Reader loaded on my machine and I can indeed view .pdf files. The problem is that the files get downloaded to my /tmp directory and then I have to manually open up the .pdf file within Acrobat Reader. This is an enormous hassle and I hope this isn't how the application is supposed to work. I don't understand how I'm supposed to edit AcroRead and I don't understand how changing the language setting is going to have anything to do with the application opening up when I try to open a .pdf file.

Am I missing something?

For Mozilla, your plugin directory is "pathToMozillaDirectory/plugins" Simply copy the file to the mozilla plugin directory. (You will need to be root to do this).
Also, make sure that "acroread" is in your path. Make a symbolic link to it in /usr/local/bin, by typing this, as root:
You will be able to type acroread at the command line, and it will run.

Acroread is actually a shell script. You can edit it, using your favourite text editor, such as vi. As I said before, simply add the lines
below the line #! /bin/sh.
I think that this is a bug in Acrobat, but it is not that hard to rectify.

I hope this helps
Ian

I did what you said (I think) but I still can't get AcroRead to automatically open when I click on a .pdf hyperlink in my browser. I continue to get the download dialog box that shows the file being saved to a directory which I then have to go in to open.

I don't know what you mean by AcroRead being run as a command. I typed in the code that you gave me but when I type AcroRead at the command line (as root) I get a "command not found" message. Am I still missing something?

Thanks for your patience.

The file is called acroread. Linux is case sensitive, so Command is different from command.

If you did as I said and created a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin, typing acroread at the command prompt should launch Acrobat Reader

I hope this helps
--Ian

Ian

Thanks for your patient and detailed replies. I am going to test this out tomorrow when I install Linux on my computer. I'll let you know how it goes

it has little bugs and with the help of these forms i could fix them
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/179129


for
Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported........
aborted

Add the following lines just below #! /bin/sh

LANG=en_US
export LANG

and copy this to the netscape or mozilla plugin folder
in my sys /usr/local/netscape/plugins as i installed netscape
the file is
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so

this will make acrobat reader default(i suppose) for the PDF files (it worked for me)

i suggest to read http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/how.../acrobat.shtml

bye and thanks

nag