| Mandrake Forum: Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux |
May 21, 2002
An announcement and link to the Adobe Acrobat 5 ftp site is posted on Mandrake Forum with general instructions for installation on Linux . . .
"One year after releasing Acrobat Reader 5 for MS Windows, Adobe has now released this version of their PDF reader for Linux."
"You can download the 9 MB 'linux-505.tar.gz' archive from Adobe's FTP server. Place it into a new directory and unpack it, either by clicking the icon in your file manager or by using this terminal command tar 'xzf linux-505.tar.gz'."
"Before installing Acrobat, make sure the 'ed' RPM is installed, the install script needs it. If you want to install the Reader system wide (the default), you have to be 'root'. Run './INSTALL'."
"You can go with the defaults. If you want to create a menu entry with MenuDrake, you will need to know the full path to the Acrobat start script. It's '/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread'."
"To install the Reader's browser plugin, copy '/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so' to the plugin directory of your preferred browser, or create the directory '~/.netscape/plugins' and copy it in there. All Linux browsers check that directory for plugins."
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