Friday 18 September 2009

Install Acrobat Reader (acroread) on Ubuntu Jaunty

The medibuntu repositorires only have the amd64 version of Acrobat Reader, however an i386 version is available from Adobe here: http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/.

Open a Terminal window and navigate to the folder where the file was downloaded to. Then enter:
sudo su
Enter your password followed by the enter key.
chmod +x AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin
./AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin
Follow the instructions to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. Pressing enter at the installation directory choice will use the default [/opt].

Finally type
exit
to exit su.

Hope that helps!

3 comments:

kugrian said...

KPDF (or it's Gnome equiv.) > Acrobat Reader!

Ed said...

The Gnome 'Document Viewer' is pretty neat but I have had a couple of PDFs that displayed correctly only in Adobe Reader.

Ed said...

Additionally the 'Document Viewer' doesn't allow you to digitally sign PDF documents, which is something I do on a regular basis.

KPDF has been replaced by Okular which can be installed on Ubuntu by typing 'sudo apt-get install okular' in a console window. Alternatively the entire KDE graphics package can be installed by entering 'sudo apt-get install kdegraphics'.

Okular doesn't allow for digital signing of PDFs though, whoch is the primary reason I installed the Adobe package.

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