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Fedora Core 6 and Acrobat Reader

By Michael Stepanov | November 17, 2006

After I loose my previous work environment I decided to install Fedora Core 6 released last month. It looks nice and works faster. But I found a big troubles with using Adobe Acrobat Reader. I downloaded RPM from Adobe site and installed it. But when I tried to open it I saw just continiusly repeated messages:
expr: syntax error
After five minutes of googling I found the solution:

1. Open file /usr/bin/acroread as root

2. Find the row 418
echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g’

3. Replace it by
echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g’

4. Find the row 644
MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"

5. Replace it by
MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"

After this simple patching Acrobat Reader works fine.

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4 Responses to “Fedora Core 6 and Acrobat Reader”

  1. Alexander Mamchenkov Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Why do you use Acrobat Reader on FC6? There is a bunch of PDF viewers available there which IMHO are better than Acrobat Reader.

    Is there any specific reason you like Acrobat Reader?

  2. Michael Stepanov Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 10:52 am

    We use Acrobat plugin in Firefox in our Billing System to display print view of documents. But anyway, which PDF reader better than Acrobat you can suggest me?

  3. Felipe Klein Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Thank you for the tip. I had had the same problems with Acrobat Reader after I updated my Ubuntu 6.10. Now it’s working fine.

  4. Michael Stepanov Says:
    January 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 am

    You’re very welcome :)

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