> Couple of problems. My RH CD does not have the file acroread_linux_30.tar.gz
> but has instead acroread.tar. The obvious assumption is I can copy this to
> whatever directory I want to install in and simply un-tar the file: tar xvf
> acroread.tar. However, this command returns some error messages and
> ultimately indicates that the file is not a valid tar archive.
>
> Anyone else run into this problem and have a solution for it??
>
I haven't even looked at a 5.0 cd yet, but I'll offer a suggestion. Try
this:
cp acroread.tar /root/read/acroread.tar.gz
gzip -d acroread.tar.gz
tar -xvf acroread.tar
It's possible that they just named the file incorrectly.
Give it a shot.
Brian.
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