I have gone over this problem as well. Ubuntu Software Center behaves weirdly. It offers me to enable the partner repository to install Adobe Reader, but if I do so it can't be install anyway. I'm using amd64, too.
-- acroread is not being built for amd64 (Lucid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532077 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs