Help installing downloaded programs

[Steve509]

Can someone please help me? I'm new to Linux but learning...slowly lol...I downloaded Adobe Reader and have looked online to learn how to install it...nothing I do in the instructions I've found have helped. What am I doing wrong?

[elija]

You may already have evince (which is a PDF reader) installed (try double clicking a PDF to see). It is lighter than the Adobe reader. If you must have the Adobe reader go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager and search for acroread. Right click on it, select Mark for installation and click apply. It will be downloaded and installed.

Synaptic will give access to almost all the software you will need and is the easiest way to install software in Ubuntu.

[Rubberman]

I assume you downloaded the Linux .bin file? That is an executable script. You need to do the following:

1. Open a command-line window.
2. Change to the directory where you downloaded the file.
3. Change the permissions to allow it to be executed: sudo chmod +x filename
4. Execute the script: sudo ./filename

It should install it so you can run it. On some systems it will even install a desktop icon.

[Steve509]

I did download the right file, and yes, you were right there is a pdf viewer which works just fine. But I still cant install the Adobe Reader. You are assuming, I think, that I know something about changing it to Permission, but I do not unfortunately. I've tried following a few different directions but still no luck