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james@james-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install acroread
[sudo] password for james:
Hi, tried your tutorial out with the following response:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package acroread is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package acroread has no installation candidate

Why don’t you just download the .deb from Adobe’s website? Then you wouldn’t have to post on the Planet about it when you can download it from Adobe’s site? They do offer a .deb file of the latest version of Adobe Reader, if you take the time on their download page to look for it, and it works great.

Did you do the first 2 steps?

sudo wget http://www.medibu….

sudo apt-get update …..

Hrm, both xpdf and this version of acroread crash when processing the pdf 1.7 standard, as downloaded from Adobe. So much for standards!

What’s the point? I’m genuinely curious: is there anything that Acrobat Reader does better than Evince?

Used your tutorial and install went flawlessly in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Kudos for such an easy way to install Adobe PDF reader for Linux Novice. Thank you very much. Respectfully, Harry

Same here, used you tutorial and worked flawlessly in ubuntu 8.04 64 bits.
Thank you

Doesn’t work for me… I’m getting Error 403: Forbidden on the first step.

I get error 403 as well

It worked just fine. Thanx

thanks a million!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot!

After installing acroread using the medibuntu repo, Adobe Acrobat does not appear as one of the applications listed when you right click a PDF, click Properties, click Open With.

I’ve gotten around this by clicking the Add button and adding /usr/bin/acroread

However, now it shows up in the list of PDF programs as “acroread” and not “Adobe Acrobat 8″.

Does anyone know how to get it to show up under “Open With” using the user friendly name?

Interestingly, installing this on a CentOS 5 system via RPM, the rpm automatically adds it to the list (doesn’t make it the default, however).

My understanding is that Evince and kpdf and whatever will not open DRM protected PDF files like the ones University of Phoenix distributes to students of their online classes. I could be wrong though.

really thanks a lot! it work so easy

thanks, this installed the pdf software fine on my Compaq Presario C700 notebook running Ubuntu 8.04

I agree with Jack Sprat.
The .deb file is easy to find on the adobe website, and seamless to install with the Gdebi package installer.

worked great for me as well Ubuntu 8.04. Just copy and paste commands into Konsol. enter password and accept warnings

works like a charm.

very nice!

If it’s so easy to find the .deb on Adobe’s site, how about a link? All it gives me the option to download is an RPM.

Nice tutorial, installation works like charm, great post, Thanks a ton

thanks, this works fine…

AFAIK Evince’s and Kpdf’s search functions are
inferior to Acroread’s. I can’t live without the latter’s grep search…

Thank you very much for this. Downloading the Adobe Reader for Linux from the Adobe site was a complete waste of time for a novice, seeing as there were no installation instructions.

This was perfect.

Thanks for the instruction.

For everyone asking “What’s the point?”, Acrobat is the only pdf viewer that handles gouraud patches correctly.

yup, this is great, though the last time i used acrobat it didnt work properly , for large pdf, lets see how this works, i always rely on xpdf or evince.

As always, thanks, works great!, and easier than adobe page.

Thanks very much, I needed acrobat as Royalmail had some labels to print from PDF that had some sort of watermark. XPDF printed this HUGE “SAMPLE” across the label. Adobe acrobat fix this, thanks for the guide.

James

Thanks! Works perfectly.

work perfctely ,thank’s

thanks a lot for the instructions!

Very good, thanks a lot. Evince was an unbelievable mountain of shit…

Only Acroread validates digital signatures in
documents that are digitally signed.

Hi,
It works great!
only one question, how can i install the Asian language pack for Acrobat reader?
i downloaded the package from Adobe website but i can not manage to install it. i need to read some chinese pdf files,

Thanks

> What’s the point? I’m genuinely curious: is
> there anything that Acrobat Reader does
> better than Evince?

I have at least a dozen PDFs that Evince can’t display at all. I have about two dozen more that Evince goes all cockeyed over when graphics are displayed. Evince also can’t fill out e-forms and run scripts.

So yes. There are things Acrobat Reader can do that Evince can’t. F/OSS is not a panacea, no matter how many mantras you chant.

Same instructions except change hardy for intrepid and it installs acrobat on 8.10.

Remember:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

I´m having problems installing adobe and keep getting this error…please help I am a complete newbie
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acroread
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/29.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 73.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database … 127026 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking acroread (from …/acroread_8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/acroread’, which is also in package adobereader-enu
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

@Erik – sounds like its conflicting with a currently installed package, acroread-enu. You could try to remove that one first and then try your installation again.

sudo apt-get remove acroreader-enu

thank you so much Christer for responding so quickly. unfortunately, I still receive the same error.

your said acrobat version is 7.0 can you please update me regarding it

Thanks

this wall in installing acrobat version 7 can you people please update regarding it

Thanks
baba

Nice, but parts of Adobe reader do not work. Specifically,

view > read out loud

does not work. I edit alot of manuscripts, and having this feature is essential to “hear” what is actually written. Adobe really needs to have this feature enabled! How do I enable it?

Thanks,
Phil Smith
Duluth, GA

I followed your tutoiral and it worked like a dream. Sadly the install lacked the plugins to read the companies house f’ed up filing PDF so I’m no nearer actually using it.

Thanks though.

thanks !

obrigado, thanks…

Thanks for a great HowTo.

Re Additional Plugins for editing documents.
If you open Synaptic Package Manager and search for ‘acroread’ after the installation, it shows that the base package has been installed, and lists several additional plugins, including one specifically for editing documents.

Install the plugins for the additional functions.

Note however that Acroreader 8 does not allow saving of completed forms, only printing or emailing.

The official Adobe Reader *.deb installation package can be downloaded directly from adobe.com @

http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

In the ‘Select an Operating System’ drop down menu, select ‘Linux – x86 (.deb)’. You can also select the language of your choice here.

50 megs? Why on Gods green earth is it so big?

Thanks man it was great

The setup worked great and allowed me to get good copies of w-2 that didn’t display correctly in Document Viewer. Need to add that last step about right clicking on pdf file and choosing other and inputting /usr/bin/acroread so the app will be used with pdf files

The install worked flawlessly. All I did was follow your 3 simple steps at the beginning of this page and wait for Ubuntu to do the rest. Nice job.

Thanks!!!!!!!

Works fine !!!!
thx

thanks!!!
nicely written and simple tutorial

thx a lot buddy!

It works fine. thanks a lot.

These instructions worked fabulously!!! Thanks so much. I’ll be passing this info on to others.

Just want to say thank you

your procedure worked flawlessly for me too

Thanks…working on Jaunty Jackalope

any idea how to down load for hte ubuntu 9.x?

Thanks a load. I needed this first thing today, and did not feel capable of independent thought.

i can't believe you are going all this computer stuff

how did you get to pecos

Thanks

Tried installing acroread on 8.04 64-bit and receive the following message:

“Package acroread is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package acroread has no installation candidate”

any suggestions?
thanks.

Thanks a lot. Your solution listed follow
worked very well.

The official Adobe Reader *.deb installation package can be downloaded directly from adobe.com @

http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

In the ‘Select an Operating System’ drop down menu, select ‘Linux – x86 (.deb)’. You can also select the language of your choice here.

i really need t download adobe for some very important turn arounds in my ljfe.thank you so much.christie, KY

10x easy and the point!

thank you very much for not install adobe

Awesome. Worked like a charm. Thanks.

None of this language made any sense to me. In simple terms, how do you install it? Isn’t there a one click install package?

Thank you,great job guys.Keep up the splendid performance.

Step 1 worked, step 2 worked,but “sudo apt-get install acroread” doesnt. Reply was “acroread – package not found” or something.

@ Veikko Rytkönen
same thing here

same sudo apt-get install acroread doesnt work… plz rplyyyy