-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/07 14:33, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >> From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat.... >> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:37:23 -0500 >> > On 07/28/07 13:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >>> From: Tommi Asiala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat.... >>> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:52:50 +0300 > >>> Hi Michael, > >>> To us to help you with the installing from tarball we would have to > know >>> what you did. Your vague information on that part doesn't help. > >> OK. I infer from this that there is no deb file and so you have to > fart >> around with the tarball. > > On the contrary. Here's the sources.list entry: > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org $BRANCH main > > Then, > # apt-get update > # apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring > # apt-get install acroread > >> OK, I did all this. It worked OK but it didn't install acroread.... So >> then I seached the web and it seemed to say that maybe there isn't a >> version of acroread for and AMD64 box (which I am using).
Hmmm, well, yes, that's a (actually, *the*) problem all right. >> There is some chroot trick that can get the i386 deb file to work. > >> Perhaps the tarball had no chance after all. A chroot will probably work. You could probably put the Macromedia Flash player in the same chroot. There are a plethora of web pages that show you how to set up such a jail. >> But maybe I still have to little faith and I have been reading old web >> pages and there IS an amd64 acroread deb file after all.... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGq5vAS9HxQb37XmcRAkLVAJ9ClM6Q/XDPh8Ol7xGeGqHKhYWE4gCgxBVs 6TW/ny/2dOESsROuwUT7w2E= =gSTP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
