More Acrobat 5.09 Issues

[Guest Roxbury Ranger]

I know there have been a few posts on this subject, and I've reviewed them - and the FAQ for installing tar.gz file - and I'm still having a problem installing Acrobat 5.09.

 

I unzipped the tar.gz file to an acrobat directory.

 

This yielded the following :

 

- common.tar

-install

-licread.txt

-linuxrdr.tar

-manifest

-readme

 

I read the readme file, and it is incredibly cryptic. All it tells you to do is "install".

 

I've tried a number of options and none of them work. I'm at a loss of what to do next. Can someone help me out?

 

Thx

[chris z]

to install Acrobat Reader 5.09 from the tar.gz..........

 

open a terminal as normal user, change to the directory where you saved it.

 

cd /path/to/download

 

unpack the file with the following command.......

 

tar -xvzf <exact name of file here>

.

 

su to root. to do so, at the terminal prompt type..... su (enter) password (enter).

 

run the install script that was unpacked from the .tar.gz file by typing.........

 

./INSTALL

 

(hit enter)

 

{NOTE: that is caps sensitive, so the caps are intentional there since the installer is in CaPs.}

 

agree to the licensing agreement. it will then ask you for an install location. the default is /usr/local/Acrobat5. hit enter, then type "agree" (no quotes) to let it install there.

 

to get it to work with various browsers, see my posts in This Thread.

 

Chris

[Crashdamage]

Or you can simplify even more and just install the Acrobat rpm. v5.0.9 is included on the 10.1 discs or can just download it seperately and install it. Better to always install rpms anyway, so your rpm database stays correct..

[Guest Roxbury Ranger]

Thanks Chris Z. I followed your directions and it worked like a charm! BTW: It was the ./INSTALL piece that was missing.

 

I'm really glad I did this because the kghost package included with 10.0 has some formatting and printing issues.

 

Thanks again for the quick response.

[Guest jscalbny]

Hi. I'm having the same trouble, but when I try to run ./INSTALL I get the error :

ERROR: No configurations found ... aborting

Any suggestions?