Update : These steps do not work in Ubuntu 7.10.  An updated tutorial is available here: Installing Adobe’s Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu 7.10.

Recently I was asked how to install the Adobe Reader on Ubuntu. Personally I have always used the included Evince reader, as it has always served my purposed. However, as I found out, there are reasons why you may want to use the Adobe Reader. So, below are instructions for installing Adobe Reader (PDF) with Firefox Plugin:

sudo aptitude install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins

After installation is complete you should now have a copy of Adobe Reader available in “Applications > Office > Adobe Reader”. You will also need to restart Firefox for the plugin to take effect.

Adobe Reader support with SCIM
Note: If you have added additional language support (SCIM) you will have trouble with running Adobe Reader 7.0. There is a fix for this outlined below:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/acroread

Within that file change:

#!/bin/sh

#

to:

#!/bin/sh

#

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

At this point Adobe Reader should work alongside additional language support (SCIM). In a later post I will outline how to associate Adobe Reader with Nautilus and also support for printing from Adobe.

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3 Responses to “How to install Adobe Reader (PDF) for Firefox : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)”

  1. vidmar on March 4th, 2007 6:41 am

    Please help!

    after i write:
    sudo aptitude install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins
    I get the mesage:
    Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “acroread”
    Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “mozilla-acroread”
    Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “acroread-plugins”

  2. ubuntu tutorials on March 4th, 2007 9:29 am

    vidmar - it sounds like you’ll simply need to add the extra repositories for access to those. please see these tutorials for tips on that:
    http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/11/19/how-to-add-extra-repositories-ubuntu-510-6061-610/

    http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/07/5-steps-to-a-new-ubuntu-installation/

  3. How To Install Adobe Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu 7.10 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Edgy - Feisty - Gutsy on October 28th, 2007 10:33 am

    [...] was recently pointed out to me on one of our local mailing lists that my previous tutorial on installing Adobe’s Acrobat reader for Firefox no longer worked. It seems that those packages have been pulled from the repository since that [...]

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