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New Linux installer for Acrobat Reader

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 28, 2020
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Maybe Adobe's Acrobat Reader team would be interested in this:

Starting with Linux Fedora-29 and forward there have been some
problems with installing Adobe's Acrobat Reader 9.5.5-1 using
the Linux 'dnf' command with AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm.
The problems are described here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646701
http://www.deskdr.com/dr/adobe-reader-9-linux-ubuntu.html
http://www.deskdr.com/dr/installing-adobe-reader-on-linux.html
http://kofa.mmto.arizona.edu/computers/linux/fedora/f29_dnf_upgrade.html
https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-acrobat-pdf-reader-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel

To address these problems I have reverse-engineered the installer so
Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.5-1 can be successfully installed and run
on Fedora-29 and forward.

If you want to check it out, then please see:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bo2ebl8z2gkyjm9/AAA4mkjg52Kf4mk_UbSyQoyKa?dl=0

1) Go into the folder: Acrobat/Acroread/Linux-Installer/2020-09-08-Version-1.0.0

2) Copy the two files: acroread.tar and readme.txt

3) Follow the instructions in readme.txt

Enjoy

Freddy Jensen

Download and install

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By the way, many kinds of reverse engineering are forbidden by the EULA. Adobe really want to let this die.

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Great! I will cancel subscription and move to canva or something.

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Adobe's Reader team would not be the least interested, I fear. Acrobat 9 reached end of life and end of support in 2013. In Mac and Windows there were many new versions and hundreds of fixes; the team did not keep looking at Adobe Reader 9 in Linux. There have been Linux install problems for many years.