[SOLVED] adobe reader not starting on current with multilib

moesasji · 05-17-2019, 08:38 AM

I'm trying to get adobe-reader going on slackware current to be able to complete a pdf feedback form that has those nice XFA forms on them that are not fully supported by Okular.

Acroread installs correctly and I have set up multilib on this system; unfortunately it still fails to run acroread. I get the following rather puzzling error on the terminal.

Code:

[hge@nova:bin] $ acroread
/usr/bin/acroread: line 22: /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: No such file or directory

Yet if I look in that folder the binary exists, see below:

Code:

[hge@nova:bin] $ ls -la /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/
total 25092
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 May  8  2013 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root     4096 May  8  2013 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1374 May  8  2013 SynchronizerApp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   952572 May  8  2013 SynchronizerApp-binary
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24538404 May  8  2013 acroread
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    15776 May  8  2013 xdg-desktop-icon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    40209 May  8  2013 xdg-desktop-menu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    18287 May  8  2013 xdg-email
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    24807 May  8  2013 xdg-icon-resource
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    49148 May  8  2013 xdg-mime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    10131 May  8  2013 xdg-open
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      235 May  8  2013 xdg-user-dir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    15508 May  8  2013 xdg-user-dirs-update

Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

btw) this is on a fully up-to-date current + multilib + ktown install (except for the kernel).

Petri Kaukasoina · 05-17-2019, 09:19 AM

What does this print out?

Code:

ls -lL /lib/ld-linux.so.2

What about this long line?

Code:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib ldd /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread |grep not

moesasji · 05-17-2019, 10:03 AM

Both these commands give the following output. The answer is probably in the fact that it is not a dynamic executable, which makes no sense to me:

Code:

[hge@nova:master-pdf-editor-5] $ ls -lL /lib/ld-linux.so.2
ls: cannot access '/lib/ld-linux.so.2': No such file or directory
[hge@nova:master-pdf-editor-5] $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib ldd /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread |grep not
	not a dynamic executable

Petri Kaukasoina · 05-17-2019, 10:23 AM

You have not installed the multilib libc.

moesasji · 05-17-2019, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

You have not installed the multilib libc.

Indeed multilib wasn't working correctly, which I should have spotted but it has clearly been too long ago since I last ran a multilib system. Oops. Running another slackpkg upgrade multilib did the job.

With that adobe is now working and it looks like I can indeed insert the info needed.

Thanks for the quick help Petri!