hirohitosan Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I have problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader. It works until some days ago. I update my system and after that (or I don't know why) suddenly doesn't start. I reinstall the rpm package but still not work. On command line: $ acroread expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error I installed again from sources but still same message. Now I don't know how to uninstall Can anyone give me some advices? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 You can do this: whereis acroread to find out where it exists, let's assume /usr/bin, then do: rpm -qf /usr/bin/acroread it should then tell you what package it belongs to, then do: urpme packagename replacing packagename, with the name of the package that acroread gave you before. Then I would try downloading and installing the new package again. It exists in urpmi, so: urpmi acroread should do the trick without you manually downloading it and trying to install it that way. Maybe this is why it doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 On a side note - apologies for butting in and for not directly answering your question - you can use kpdf which is much faster and (imho) nicer. If you're not on KDE but GNOME you may want to use evince (which I have no experience with)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohitosan Posted February 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 I did: whereis acroread acroread: /usr/bin/acroread rpm -qf /usr/bin/acroread file /usr/bin/acroread is not owned by any package I don't know how to remove it. :mellow: Also I tried urpmi acroread no package named acroread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) I installed again from sources but still same message. Now I don't know how to uninstall Can anyone give me some advices? If you saved the directory you compiled it in... cd to that directory, and as root do: make uninstall Edited February 1, 2007 by Greg2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippocampe Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 I reinstall the rpm package but still not work Where did you get the rpm package from? Is it the rpm from the Adobe website? Greg2: make uninstall would not work because Adobe acrobat is not an open source application and you cannot install it from sources. The tarball you get from their website actually contains binaries and an installation script. Hirohitosan: This is from the ReadMe file in the tarball for Adobe reader 7: To uninstall Adobe Reader, you can simply delete the directory where it was installed. You may choose to do this if you installed using a tarball installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Greg2: make uninstall would not work because Adobe acrobat is not an open source application Thanks for catching that... I knew Adobe was not open source (me hides face in shame) I guess it was too early in the morning for me. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohitosan Posted February 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Where did you get the rpm package from? Is it the rpm from the Adobe website? yes I downloaded from Adobe web site. simply delete the directory where it was installed.Thank you! I deleted the directory where was installed. But anyway I'm still curious why it doesn't work on my computer. It works in the past and suddenly it stop working. I downloaded again the .rpm from Adobe web site, I installed again and same error acroread expr: syntax error Few days ago a had a serious crash on my computer. I inserted an PCMCIA card and suddenly everything frozen. Keyboard, mouse, everything. I had no choices and I reset my computer. After that, the FSCK start and fix some inodes problems and after that some programs doesn't start (Amarok for example). I reinstalled and it works, but with Adobe Acrobat it doesn't work. Could be from that crash? I'm sorry if is a stupid question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippocampe Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 This might mean that FSCK was not able to correct all errors on your disk. Try to rename the following folders in your home directory: .acrobat (rename to .acrobat.old) .adobe (rename to .adobe.old) See if that solves your problem. If it still does not work after that, try this from the console as root: rpm -Va See if there are any interesting errors/warnings, like missing files or broken dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohitosan Posted February 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 .acrobat (rename to .acrobat.old).adobe (rename to .adobe.old) I replaced but still not working. Same error and rpm -Va It gives me a biig output. I don't understand very well. I attached the output. Is says that Mozilla is missing but in fact I installed the new version 2.0, and the same with Java. In rest I don't understand :unsure: rpm__Va.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 I have problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader. It works until some days ago. I update my system and after that (or I don't know why) suddenly doesn't start. I reinstall the rpm package but still not work. On command line: $ acroread expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error expr: syntax error I just upgraded my AdobeReader with the AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.rpm. When I tried to open it with the terminal I had an infinite loop of "expr: syntax error" I've found the fix (hack) for your (our) problem, or anyone with this problem using Mandriva 2007. Using your favorite editor open: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread find this section: get_gtk_file_ver() and change this line from: echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' to echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' Open your new reader and enjoy. Please note that this does not seem to be a problem with Debian, or my Xubuntu systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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