On Thursday 23 October 2003 10:07 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So > I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured "no > problem" I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right). > > I extracted it but can't seem to get it to install. make and make > install don't seem to do the trick. I looked at install --help and man > install but don't know enough about this stuff yet to know what I was > looking at (or actually what I needed). The instructions say run the > install script (very profound eh, - even tried that). What do I have to > type this time for the install to go? > > Thanks > Russ Russ, more info, I assume you did a 'tar -xvzf adobe.tar.gz" or whatever the file is. After the untaring is complete did you read the text file for specific installation instructions? You should see it in konqueror in the directory you untarred in. It is INSTGUIDE.TXT and says to use the comand ./install. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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