I have downloaded the Acrobat reader for Linux and tried to install. It didn't work.

First I ĺogged on as a root user and decompress the tarball.

Look at the following:

[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# tar -xvzf linux-5010.tar.gz
installers/COMMON.TAR
installers/INSTALL
installers/LICREAD.TXT
installers/LINUXRDR.TAR
installers/MANIFEST
installers/README
[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# cd installers
[root@c83-250-88-205 installers]# ls
COMMON.TAR INSTALL* LICREAD.TXT LINUXRDR.TAR MANIFEST kkt/ README
[root@c83-250-88-205 installers]# cd kkt/
[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# ls
bin/ Browsers/ Reader/ Resource/
[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# cd bin/
[root@c83-250-88-205 bin]# ls
acroread*
[root@c83-250-88-205 bin]# acroread
bash: acroread: command not found





[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# ls
bin/ Browsers/ Reader/ Resource/
[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# cd Reader/
[root@c83-250-88-205 Reader]# ls
AcroVersion help/ intellinux/ license.txt MapTypes.pdf res/
[root@c83-250-88-205 Reader]#
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When you write the word ' acroread ' , it should start the program.

What is the problem? How can I start the program? It seems the installation was fine.

Please help me.

I am not sure about this particular version of acrobat, but note that you can get Acrobat7 meanwhile, which also comes as rpm file (very easy to install).

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=301931

Did you have a look in the INSTALL and README files listed above? Cause it seems to me that you only unpacked the tar-file so far.
Try ./acroread instead (you need to use ./ to execute files from the current directory).

abisko

I obeyed you and downloaded the ' rpm file'.

The name of the file is AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm

I logged on as a root user and tried to install it.

Please read the following:

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[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]# rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:AdobeReader_enu ########################################### [100%]
[root@c83-250-88-205 kkt]#
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How do I open the Adobe Acrobat?

abisko

It works now. I just wrote acroread and pressed enter. Thanks for the great help.

Jag kan svenska. Du bor in norra Sverige, eller hur?

Precis, men jag kommer från tyskland också.

Gins,
I can see that you are able to run acrobat reader installing from that rpm. But still, I'd like to comment on your first post.
You unzipped the tar archive but u never ran the actual install script, which means you never installed the program. Thats the reason why it didn't run and gave "command not found" error.

evil

Thanks for your comment. I am not so good at these things. I am fumbling around with these things. I will learn from every mistake.