FC6 and acroread - not working

[Mike McCarty]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Install the newest Adobe RPM from the adobe website, which for me is
>> AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1
>>
>> Then the attached patch fixes the problem you see in there.
>>
>> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin
>>
>> You know, in a terminal run "patch < acrobat.patch" in that directory.
>>
>> On 11/20/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 30 October 2006 02:17, Paul Smith wrote:
>>> >On 10/30/06, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>>> >> I got acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf.nosrc.rpm from here:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/acroread/info.html
>>> >>
>>> >> I extracted the spec file. I downloaded the latest acroread tar.gz
>>> >> from Adobe, then adjusted the spec for the new version. Then rebuilt
>>> >> the acroread binary package.
>>> >>
>>> >> But when I launch acroread, I get a bunch of messages like this:
>>> >>
>>> >> expr: syntax error
>>> >> expr: syntax error
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> --- acroread.orig    2006-10-28 13:28:07.000000000 +0200
>>> +++ acroread    2006-10-28 13:28:52.000000000 +0200
>>> @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@
>>>    if [ -z "$2" -o "$2" = "$1" ] ; then
>>>      echo "$1"
>>>    else
>>> +
>>>      first="`expr "$2" : '\([^:]*\):'`"
>>>      if [ "$first" = "$1" ] ; then
>>>        echo "$2"
>>> @@ -409,14 +410,16 @@
>>>          fi
>>>  
>>>             mfile=`basename $ifile`
>>> -        echo $mfile | grep -q 
>>> "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>>> -
>>> -           if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>>> -           return 1 +        if echo $mfile | grep -q 
>>> "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9][0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>>> +    then
>>> +        echo $mfile| sed 
>>> 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9][0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' 
>>>
>>> +        return 0
>>> +    elif echo $mfile | grep -q 
>>> "libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)" 2>/dev/null
>>> +    then
>>> +        echo $mfile| sed 
>>> 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\10\2\3/g' 
>>>
>>> +        return 0
>>>          fi
>>> -
>>> -           echo $mfile| sed 
>>> 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
>>> -        return 0
>>> +           return 1      fi
>>>  
>>>      return 1
>>> @@ -640,7 +643,7 @@
>>>  # Check the version of gtk and update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH if required.
>>>  
>>>  if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ]; then
>>> -    MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
>>> +    MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"
>>>      check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path  "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"  ### returns 
>>> 0 if found gtk >= 2.4
>>>  fi
>>>
> 
> Thanks, this appears to work.  The acid test for me will be when FF 
> see's a .pdf, and calls acroread to display it.  If I can quit that w/o 
> waiting around for about 1:30 before the exit x I clicked on to work, 
> I'd say its fixed.
> 
> But I'm confused, my question post dates 11/20/06, and it's now 
> 12/08/06, so I'd very nearly forgotten about it.  A lack of short term 
> memory at my age is a curse.

You're not looking at it right, Gene.

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Old Man: (after a pause to let the news sink in) Well, at least
          it isn't cancer!

Mike
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