Acroread Not Working in Hoary

phishtrader · 10-14-2005, 09:35 AM

While this issue might go away with the impending upgrade to Breezy, I'm going to ask anyhow.

I'm running Ubuntu on an older box and the performance of xpdf is a little slower than I'd like with viewing pdfs with lots of images. So I figured I might give acroread a try.

Installed the following packages in Synaptic:
acroread
firefox-acroread
acroread-plugins

I've got an Acrobat Reader icon in the Applications menu, clicking on it does nothing. I think the icon is calling /usr/bin/acroread which is just a shell script.

If I run /usr/bin/acroread from a terminal I get a "Installation directory not found" and that's it.

I've tried reinstalling the packages.

Anybody else run into this?

jailbait · 10-14-2005, 10:48 AM

"Anybody else run into this?"

I have run into so many problems every time I try to install acroread that I no longer bother to install it. I use kpdf. Adobe needs to get their Linux act togather.

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Steve Stites

jschiwal · 10-14-2005, 10:53 PM

On my system, acroread is installed to:
/usr/X11R6/bin/acroread
Perhaps you need "/usr/X11R6/bin" in your $PATH

aysiu · 10-14-2005, 11:05 PM

Acroread works fine for me in Kubuntu Breezy. A locate acroread brings up this for me

Code:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/acroread.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-acroread.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-acroread.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-acroread.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-acroread.md5sums
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-acroread_7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1_i386.deb
/usr/share/doc/acroread
/usr/share/doc/acroread/LICREAD.TXT.gz
/usr/share/doc/acroread/copyright
/usr/share/doc/acroread/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/acroread/README
/usr/share/doc/acroread/Reader.pdf
/usr/share/doc/mozilla-acroread
/usr/share/doc/mozilla-acroread/LICREAD.TXT.gz
/usr/share/doc/mozilla-acroread/copyright
/usr/share/doc/mozilla-acroread/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz
/usr/share/menu/acroread
/usr/share/pixmaps/acroread.xpm
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/acroread
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/mozilla-acroread
/usr/share/bug/acroread
/usr/share/bug/acroread/control
/usr/share/bug/mozilla-acroread
/usr/share/bug/mozilla-acroread/control
/usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Office/acroread.desktop
/usr/bin/acroread
/usr/lib/mime/packages/acroread
/usr/lib/mime/packages/mozilla-acroread
/usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
/usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread