Adobe Acrobat Reader
Version 3 (from IBM for AIX)
Comes as a collection of
archives and an installation script, unpacked or pre-installed e.g. in
/usr/Adobe/acrobat
, from which the installation script has to be run.
Read the INSTGUID.TXT
.
Choose an installation directory, e.g.
/usr/lpp/Acrobat3
or similar locations, e.g. /opt/Acrobat3
.
Then, for example:
cd /usr/Adobe/acrobat
./INSTALL # answer questions, e.g. install into /opt/Acrobat3
cd /opt/bin # assuming a common location for all local binaries
ln -s ../Acrobat3/bin/acroread acroread
acroread # give it a try: browse reader.pdf
Versions 3, 4, 5 (from Adobe)
Comes as a packed archive, which has to be unpacked first,
preferably into some temporary location, e.g. /tmp
, for example:
cd /tmp/
zcat acrobat.aix-5011.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
# or:
gunzip -c /tmp/osfrstar.gz | tar -xvf -
Then run the delivered installation script ./INSTALL
(or similar).
On prompt for the destination directory one may specify e.g.:
/usr/local/Acrobat5
or similar locations, e.g. /opt/Acrobat5
.
In a similar fashion extra fonts are handled.
For convenience:
ln -s /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /opt/bin/acroread
# or
cd /opt/bin
ln -s ../Acrobat5/bin/acroread acroread
or put it into the command path:
export PATH=/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin:$PATH
Note: It may be necessary to adapt the
install_dir
in the acroread
script,
especially for remotely mounted filesystems, for example:
install_dir=`dirname $0`/../Reader
Note: The acroread
script
prevents running Acrobat on OS versions newer than the ones
available at release time, although the binary most probably would run.
To fix this, modify in Acrobat5/bin/acroread
for example:
# change:
case "$os_release" in
4.*|5.*)
# to:
case "$os_release" in
4.*|5.*|6.*|7.*)
Versions 7
Needs about 240MB free space.
Needs GTK+ libraries 2.x, which in turn need:
libpng libtiff libjpeg glib2 atk pango gettext freetype2 libfontconfig.a libfreetype.a libexpat.a
These are (almost) the same as needed by
Mozilla Firefox.
Moreover, Acrobat
tries to install browser plug-ins,
so it is advisable to install Firefox (and/or other browsers)
prior to Acrobat.
The message
There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api'.
The plug-in fail to initialize.
is caused by missing openldap-2.0.21
(or higher),
which in turn needs db
and possibly gdbm
.
The ssl
version needs in addition libssl
and libcrypto
(Pfffh! Shared library crap at its worst :-((
Installation example for AIX:
cd /tmp/
gunzip -c AdbeRdr709_aix_enu.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd AdobeReader
Run delivered script ./INSTALL
, it will ask for an installation
directory.
Note that the installation optionally introduces
a browser plugin (/usr/mozilla/base/plugins/nppdf.so
)
which requires Acrobat 7 to be in the command PATH
,
otherwise the browser won't be able to handle PDFs.
The plugin nppdf.so
resides in the
Browser/rs6000aix
subdirectory of the Acrobat installation
directory.
HP-UX 11.x
Add shared libraries:
export SHLIB_PATH=$SHLIB_PATH:/opt/gtk2.6/lib/
Last update: 28-Jan-2014,
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