On 5/21/05, Thomas Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [getting acroread to work]
I think I found an end user friendly way now to install acroread on a pure64 system. 1. Get ia32-libs and install it. Just about any version should work: testing, unstable, or ubuntu hoary. If you are unsure, do "apt-get install ia32-libs". 2. Get ia32-libs-gtk from ubuntu: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ia32-libs-gtk/ia32-libs-gtk_4_amd64.deb , and install it with "dpkg -i ia32-libs-gtk_4_amd64.deb". 3. Get the acroread debian package from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/acroread_7.0-0sarge0.9_i386.deb . While you are at it, you may also get the extra plugins. 4. Install it with dpkg -i --force-all acroread_7.0-0sarge0.9_i386.deb . It wont go without force, because it is the wrong architecture. 5. Edit /usr/bin/acroread. Towards the end, there is a line exec "$ACRO_EXEC_CMD" ${1+"$@"} Add GCONV_PATH=/usr/lib32/gconv LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0.0 at the beginning of this line, before exec. That is still a bit messy, but for the time being it will have to do. Do you think there is any chance of: 1. Adobe taking this patch on? 2. Marillat including it? 3. Ubuntu packaging acroread 7.0? 4. Debian getting an acroread installer? Any of these parties could hide the difficulties and make a package that "just works". Thomas
