acroread aborts

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Jan 7 23:36:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Karl Misselt wrote:

> Jos Vos wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >
> >
> >>To use that all time you can make an alias in ~/.bashrc
> >>
> >>alias acro='export LANG=en_US; acroread'
> >
> >
> > Not a good idea *this* way, as it will *leave* your LANG set
> > to "en_US" and makes your LANG dependent on whether or not
> > you have started acroread during a session.
> >
>
> You can simply modify the acroread script, /usr/local/bin/acroread
> ie. mine looks like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> export LANG=en_US
> ver=5.0.8
> install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader

Or get your acroread and acroread-plugin RPMs from www.gurulabs.com, where
it's all taken care of for you.
-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs





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