acroread (Pete's notes)

Delete the existing acroread, if any.

cd /usr/src mkdir acroread-508 cd acroread-508 gunzip linux-508.tar.gz tar xf linux-508.tar rm linux-508.tar read the README file ./INSTALL accept (I accept the terms of the license) RETURN (install into /usr/local/Acrobat4) RETURN (ok, create /usr/local/Acrobat4 directory)

Edit the .bashrc files for the siemsen and root accounts, and add

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin

IMPORTANT: if when ou first run acroread it simply says Aborted, edit the file named /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread and add

export LANG=C

near the top. This bit me when I upgraded from Red Hat 7.3 to Red Hat Fedora Core 1 - the Red Hat folks no longer define LANG by default.

There is no man page. For some info, run "acroread --help".

By default, acroread will print using the command

/usr/bin/lpr

To hook acroread to Mozilla, open Mozilla's Edit->Preferences window. Select Navigator->Helper Applications. Click New Type. Set the MIME Type to application/pdf. Set the binary to /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread.

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Last modified: Thu Apr 13 13:33:43 MDT 2006