How to get Adobe Acrobat Reader to Work

[wirawan0]

For those who care for absolute correctness: the more correct patch is available online, here:

http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch

Download the patch, and patch the acroread using it.

The way to do it: suppose you download the patch to /tmp/acroread.patch, then:

$ sudo bash
(asking your password then...)

# cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin
# patch < /tmp/acroread.patch
# exit

Now invoke acroread, it should work OK whether the libgtk file was libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1000.11 or the old-style libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.200.0 .

I found a comprehensive discussion here:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc22d86

HTH,
Wirawan

[haopeng]

Originally Posted by dxturner The problem occurs when you have an updated gtk package that has more than one digit in the middle of the version number ... so gtk v 2.9.xxx works, but 2.10.xxx don't! if you've got gkt 2.1x.xxx you'll need to fix line 418 so that the regex works ... see the forum note on the adobe site: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc435f2 Line 418 in the acroread script was: echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' but should be: echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' ( note the asterisk ' * ' in the second regex ) ... I didn't come up with this solution, just passing it along!

Hi dxturner, I also has the "syntax error" for acroread, I've done the same fix on my ubuntu,
why it still not working for me?

I changed the said line to all the following suggested solutions from this thread,

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)[0-9]\{2\}.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)000.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

They all not working for me. /usr/bin/acroread does not throw any error it just return with nothing showing after I run. Can you help? Thanks!

my gtk version is
# dpkg -l |grep gtk
ii gtk2-engines 2.10.1-0ubuntu1 theme engines for GTK+ 2.x
ii gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.10.11-0ubuntu3 Pixbuf-based theme for GTK+ 2.x
ii gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks 0.9.12-4 'ubuntulooks' theme for GTK+ 2.x

[martin28]

Hello,

I'm running Fiesty Fawn and I'm an Ubuntu beginner. I can't get Acrobat to work.

I installed Acrobat using the .rpm from the site which I converted to .deb using alien. I did it like this because I found a thread that said that was the way to do it.

Then when I tried to run it I got a permission error. When I went to Applications->Office->Adobe Reader and clicked on it I got a messsage that said "Failed to execute child process "acroread" (Permission denied)".

So I googled and found a site that said you had to run sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/acroread.

I did that and now when I doubleclick on Adobe Reader nothing happens!! I've tried it in the terminal and nothing happens there either, it returns nothing and i'm back to the command prompt.

I've tried changing all the stuff in the thread, about the missing '0' from line 418, but still nothing works.

If anybody has the time/interest to help me get this working I would be very grateful!!

Thanks,
Martin.

[raja]

Originally Posted by martin28 Hello, If anybody has the time/interest to help me get this working I would be very grateful!! Thanks, Martin.

Hi,
I recently installed from the adobe site with the shell script with no problems. Anyway - what is the output of

acroread

and

cd /usr/bin
./acroread

[Goliath!]

@Martin28, you might also trying to install Acrobat reader thru Automatix. Instructions are here: http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/ind...e=Installation

[raja]

Originally Posted by Goliath! @Martin28, you might also trying to install Acrobat reader thru Automatix. Instructions are here: http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/ind...e=Installation

Not a very good idea to use automatix for something that can be pretty easily done without it.
Remember that Automatix is not recommended by the Ubuntu team and has caused problems when people upgrade.

[felix.rommel]

Since a few days even Goliath's: method does not work any more. acroread has the following output on command line:

(acroread:5771): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Any idea what could cause that error?

[mwiertz]

bump! same problem here

[peteryuan301]

the same problem,all solutions are not work ,my os is 7.04

#locate libgtk-x11 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.a /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1000.11 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so

[felix.rommel]

Originally Posted by felix.rommel Since a few days even Goliath's: method does not work any more. acroread has the following output on command line: (acroread:5771): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed Any idea what could cause that error?

Sorry, I'm in the wrong forum - thought this is Gutsy development forum - so my problems with Acroread on Gutsy are different then yours on Feisty.

For Feisty users I recommend using Medibuntu repository (http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php):

echo "deb http://de.packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://de.packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install acroread

Should do the trick for installing Adobe Reader 7.0. Medibuntu offers also interesting packages like Skype, Google Earth and video codecs!