Problem installing Acrobat Reader in Mandrake 10.1

**gododdin** · 02-20-2005

Hello

Downloaded acrobat reader 5 and unpacked the installation directory in /usr/local/ (as SU) - all okay. Ran ./INSTALL and got through the 'conditions' page okay then typed 'accept' as requested - after a short while got the following error message:

Installing platform dependent files ... Done
./INSTALL: line 219: ed: command not found
ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread

I've tried a search here but found nothing about this - any ideas?

Thanks

**sether** · 02-20-2005

I'd imagine you could just do

Code:

urpmi acroread

as root and it would be installed.

**gododdin** · 02-20-2005

Tried that, but it didn't work. I looked at the install file with emacs and scrolled to line 219 - this is what it says:

ed -s "$i" <<__EOF__

As a Linux newbie this means nothing to me I'm afraid...

Any further help would be much appreciated

Thanks

**sether** · 02-20-2005

Well if it says "ed: command not found" then you don't have ed installed. I have no idea what ed is but try

Code:

urpmi ed

and then try installing acroread again.

EDIT: I just discovered ed is a text editor, by the way.

**gododdin** · 02-21-2005

That did it! Many thanks

**armac** · 03-03-2005

Can I ask for more help than Gododdin?

Exactly how does one actually run "install"? There must be a technique, but double clicking it asks me to choose a programme, but after 2 hrs searching help and the net I'm at a loss.

The most helpful thing I've found so far is Nautilus in SU mode, which told me that Install was null and I shouldn't run it.

As for "urpmi acroread", how and where does one do that, and to what? The terminal says the package isn't found

Can someone direct me to a resource which explains how to actually install any given item of software? I appear not to have the mental stamina required to hunt it down myself, and feel I am beginning to succumb to the blandishments of windows and a sybarytic longing for the single click install.

Bob McIntyre

**dylunio** · 03-03-2005

to install, go to a terminal and:

Code:

cd /path/to/INSTALL
su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
./INSTALL

replace /path/to/INSTALL with the real path to the INSTALL file, e.g. /home/jack/acrobat-reader/

dylunio

**jeremy1701** · 03-03-2005

Bob,

Enjoy:
http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-19957.html

Jeremy

**gododdin** · 03-03-2005

Thanks to all - now sorted!

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