[SOLVED] Lenny (stable) acroread "ERROR: Cannot find installation directory." after u

**Daan** · 04-27-2009

After an upgrade, acroread (Adobe's pdf reader, it's in debian-multimedia) will not run any more:

Code:

$ acroread
ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

There's a problem with an unavailable package, which prevents an upgrade of acroread 8 to 9, but acroread-debian-files has been upgraded. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling, but I get the an error about broken dependencies.

Code:

# apt-get install acroread
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  acroread: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) but 2.12.12-1~lenny1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

What can I do to get acroread running?

**reed9** · 04-27-2009

You'll probably have to install libgtk2 from the testing repository.

**Daan** · 04-27-2009

That is abut strange. I have Lenny for both the official and the multimedia repositories. I would say it then works. Is it a bug?

**reed9** · 04-27-2009

Are you sure you have the stable repo for Debian Multimedia? Looking at the Debian Multimedia Lenny package info for acroread, it lists libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) as the dependency.

**reed9** · 04-27-2009

Geez, acroread is 62 MB installed? Does it have some crazy extra functionality to justify that size? Epdfview is a svelt 0.40 MB installed, and even evince is only 7.09 MB.

**Daan** · 04-28-2009

I don't know why it is so big, but it is very fast in rendering pdf documents. Acrobat Reader is the most commonly used pdf reader, that is why I really like to have it, so that when I make an pdf myself I can check it looks right for most people.

Code:

# apt-cache show acroread
Package: acroread
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 85796
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 9.1.0-0.4
Replaces: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<= 7.0-0sarge0.3), mozilla-acroread (<= 8.1.1-0.2)
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.6), libglu1-mesa | libglu1, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), libxt6, xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3), libldap2 | libldap-2.4-2, libcups2, acroread-l10n | acroread-l10n-en, acroread-debian-files (>= 0.0.33), acroread-data (>= 9.1.0-0.4)
Recommends: gconf2
Suggests: acroread-plugins, mozilla-acroread, acroread-l10n
Conflicts: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<= 7.0-0sarge0.3)
Filename: pool/main/a/acroread/acroread_9.1.0-0.4_i386.deb
Size: 37197402
MD5sum: f3614ca48565f066f9c1caace4b0746a
SHA1: a7823fec0db4d1ac3a7cb0d075280a4090329083
SHA256: 3297294247573ec41208ad112edcd5d6eb079da2f7410f429806666a30044a07
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
 Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document
 Format (PDF) files.
Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Package: acroread
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 63516
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 8.1.4-0.0
Replaces: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<= 7.0-0sarge0.3), mozilla-acroread (<= 8.1.1-0.2)
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libglu1-mesa | libglu1, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.3), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), libldap2 | libldap-2.4-2, libcupsys2, acroread-debian-files (>= 0.0.26), acroread-data (>= 8.1.4-0.0), libxul0d
Recommends: gconf2
Suggests: acroread-plugins, mozilla-acroread, acroread-l10n
Conflicts: acroread-debian-files (<= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (<= 7.0-0sarge0.3)
Filename: pool/main/a/acroread/acroread_8.1.4-0.0_i386.deb
Size: 26070764
MD5sum: 3854ab8e74f0a8b4566bdb13d3b00bcf
SHA1: 682b04605e80240f70360a4648dbafb1f07d16e5
SHA256: 9f70f3009a203853d99b1b83ac50aed3f5e449fe24ac4e1431ac058f2d4eb63f
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
 Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document
 Format (PDF) files.
Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

# aptitude install acroread
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  acroread 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acroread-data{a} acroread-debian-files{a} acroread-dictionary-de{a} acroread-l10n-de{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.2MB/49.2MB of archives. After unpacking 113MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  acroread: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) but 2.12.12-1~lenny1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
acroread [8.1.4-0.0 (stable)]

Score is -9920

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

So I get acreoread 9.1.0-0.4, which depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0). On the debian-mulitmedia website you refer to it says acroread 8.1.4-0.0. for Lenny (stable) which depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0).

Here's my sources.list:

Code:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux LennyBeta2 _Lenny_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080608-11:24]/ lenny main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux LennyBeta2 _Lenny_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080608-11:24]/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main
deb http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main

# deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio/ ./
# deb-src http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio/ ./

deb http://rlehy.free.fr/packages/ekee ./

So that's Lenny (stable), right? I don't think I have ever had testing in my sources.list.

**reed9** · 04-28-2009

Yup that's Lenny/stable. Not sure what's going on there, but apt-cache listed both 8.1.4-0.0 and 9.1.0-0.4. Try

Code:

su -
apt-get install acroread=8.1.4-0.0

or

Code:

apt-get -t stable install acroread

**Daan** · 05-06-2009

I noticed apt-get was complaining when updating the package database. Something about expecting lenny but getting squeeze from the debian-multimedia mirror.

Now I have removed the following three lines from my sources.list

Code:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main
deb http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.hro.nl/debian-multimedia/ lenny main

and added

Code:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

After an update and upgrade, I removed acroread and reinstalled it and now it works.

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