On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:45:24PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I tried installing Adobe Acrobat from a tarball and it doesn't seem to > work. It was a while ago now so I have forgotten exactly what I did and > didn't do. > > It seems a bit complex because it tries to put it in Iceweasel as plugin or > something and also as a stand alone program at the same time or > something....... > > I don't remember it being as complex as this in the past. > > At a very dumb level is there an acrobat deb file somewhere that would be > easy to install somewhere in the non free repository....? >
Hi Michael, I see you've had quite a discussion already. What is it about brand-name Acroread that you need? I've never used it; I use xpdf. If I have any KDE apps installed, I'll use Kpdf. I don't like gnome apps so don't use evince. Yes amd64 has a couple of things that don't work because the closed-source apps aren't compiled for amd64. I have a chroot for a browser with adobe flash player. The instructions in the amd64 howto/faq for setting up a chroot worked reasonably well. I installed schroot so that now its simple to make a button for icewm that will run the browser in its chroot. Once you have an ia32 chroot, you can put anything you like into it. Good luck, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
