Adobe 7 Question
 

Hello all,
I am 'really' new to linux and highly dependent on GUI for doing things.
I downloaded the AdobeReader RPM and installed in on Fedora 5

There was nothing added to the menu and I can't seem to find how to launch the progam. I have tried $locate adobe but nothing shows up.
Tried $locate acroread still nothing shows up.

I'm lost as to how to get this reader up and running.

Perhaps a stupid question, but did you try 'acroread' at the prompt? If not, re-run your locate update tool: updatedb as root. Also, make sure you're not trying to start 'acroread' as root ... it may be in a path that will not be automatically added to root's path like it normally would for a regular user's.

Harlin Seritt

Its usually added to the Office section of the menu. You can also run it by entering "acroread" in a terminal.

I tried updating db as root, then ran locate adobe again - here is the result. I still can't locate acroread.

[root@SERVER don]# updatedb
[root@SERVER don]# locate adobe
/usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings/adobe-dingbats.enc.gz
/usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings/adobe-standard.enc.gz
/usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings/adobe-symbol.enc.gz
/usr/share/ogonkify/adobe.enc
[root@SERVER don]#

It seems that the software did not install. I ran install using the RPM and it said that the install was successful. I'm puzzled.

Ok, go ahead and install xpdf :) That will work just as well :)

As I mentioned above, the command to run Adobe Reader is called "acroread" and not "adobe". To check whether Adobe Reader is installed, do
If it was installed successfully you should get output thats similar to

Thanks for the suggestion - I ran the command twice with both Adobe and adobe (upper and lower case) both returned nothing so it seems that the program is not installing for some reason.

[don@SERVER ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i Adobe
[don@SERVER ~]$
[don@SERVER ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i adobe
[don@SERVER ~]$

I can manage with xpdf but find it puzzling why adobe wont install.
I just recently installed Fedora 5.0 and wonder if I should re-install. Do you think that would help?

You may want to check the Adobe Reader site and see if Fedora Core 5 is supported yet.

You didn't really need to run the command twice since -i in grep matches lower and upper case names. Anyway the results mean that its not installed, on your system.

I did a complete re-install and was able to install adobe reader this time.
Thanks for all your input.