Acrobat Reader

[Paul Almquist]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:46, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:00:26 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> 
wrote:
> > On 03/14/2005 09:40:49 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > > There's a new commercial Adobe Acrobat reader - screenshots look like
> > > gtk2
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/AdobeReader_enu-7.
> > >0.0-1.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > I haven't tried it yet - it's downloading now - previous Adobe
> > > readers (for me) have only been worth deleting - but people are
> > > saying they like this one a lot.
> >
> > Works well - and it is dynamically linked against gtk2+ which means it
> > gets menu shadowing from my patched install of gtk2+ and this matches
> > everythinh I use (except firefox) :)
> >
> > --
> > Michael A. Peters
> > http://mpeters.us/
>
> I wonder... I have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, although I don't
> remember from which repo I got it. Using the link cited, will it
> overwrite the current version here, or will I end up with two
> acroreads installed?
>
> >rpm -q acroread
>
> acroread-5.0.10-1.1.fc3.rf
>
> >where acroread
>
> /usr/bin/acroread
>
I installed v7 last night.  Here is what I got:
# ll /usr/bin/acroread
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 40 Mar 15 01:11 /usr/bin/acroread 
-> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

If you want to keep the old version you could rename /usr/bin/acroread before 
installing v7.


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Paul Almquist
paul at almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA