Gene Heskett wrote:

Paul Johnson wrote:

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Install the newest Adobe RPM from the adobe website, which for me is AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1

Then the attached patch fixes the problem you see in there.

/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin

You know, in a terminal run "patch < acrobat.patch" in that directory.

On 11/20/06, Gene Heskett gene.heskett@verizon.net wrote:

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On Monday 30 October 2006 02:17, Paul Smith wrote:

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On 10/30/06, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:

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I got acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf.nosrc.rpm from here:

http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/acroread/info.html

I extracted the spec file. I downloaded the latest acroread tar.gz from Adobe, then adjusted the spec for the new version. Then rebuilt the acroread binary package.

But when I launch acroread, I get a bunch of messages like this:

expr: syntax error expr: syntax error

---

--- acroread.orig 2006-10-28 13:28:07.000000000 +0200 +++ acroread 2006-10-28 13:28:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ if [ -z "$2" -o "$2" = "$1" ] ; then echo "$1" else

• first="`expr "$2" : '([^:]*):'`" if [ "$first" = "$1" ] ; then echo "$2"

@@ -409,14 +410,16 @@ fi

        mfile=`basename $ifile`

•    echo $mfile | grep -q 
  

"libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9]*).([0-9]*)" 2>/dev/null

•       if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  

•       return 1 +        if echo $mfile | grep -q 
  

"libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9][0-9])00.([0-9]*)" 2>/dev/null

• then

•    echo $mfile| sed 
  

's/libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9][0-9])00.([0-9]*)|(.*)/\1\2\3/g'

•    return 0
  

• elif echo $mfile | grep -q

"libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9])00.([0-9]*)" 2>/dev/null

• then

•    echo $mfile| sed 
  

's/libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9])00.([0-9]*)|(.*)/\10\2\3/g'

•    return 0
     fi
  

•       echo $mfile| sed 
  

's/libgtk-x11-([0-9]*).0.so.0.([0-9])00.([0-9]*)|(.*)/\1\2\3/g'

•    return 0
  

•       return 1      fi
  
  

  return 1

@@ -640,7 +643,7 @@ # Check the version of gtk and update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH if required.

if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ]; then

• MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"

• MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040" check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION" ### returns

0 if found gtk >= 2.4 fi

Thanks, this appears to work. The acid test for me will be when FF see's a .pdf, and calls acroread to display it. If I can quit that w/o waiting around for about 1:30 before the exit x I clicked on to work, I'd say its fixed.

But I'm confused, my question post dates 11/20/06, and it's now 12/08/06, so I'd very nearly forgotten about it. A lack of short term memory at my age is a curse.

You're not looking at it right, Gene.

Old man enters doctor's office.

Doctor: Well, I have bad news, and I have worse news. Old Man: Ok, give me the worse news first. Doctor: You've got cancer, and you are going to die in 6 mos. Old Man: Oh. Hmm. Well, give me the bad news. Doctor: You also have Alzheimer's disease. Old Man: (after a pause to let the news sink in) Well, at least it isn't cancer!

Mike