Acrobat Reader under Fedora 11 64 bit?

leonardevens · #1 20th September 2009, 04:22 PM

I recently installed the 64 bit version of Fedora on an HP Pavillion. I haven't been able to figure out how to run the Acrobat Reader (acroread). Adobe doesn't yet provide a 64 bit version of the reader for Linux, but it should be possible to use the 32 bit version. I downloaded
AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin from the Adobe website and executed it. It appeared to install properly. But when I run acroread, it fails because it can't find libxml2.so.2. I have the 64 bit version of that library /usr/lib64/libxml.so.2. I would like to add a proper 32 bit version by using yum---or rather the gnome GUI to yum Add/Remove Software. So I presume I have to find a proper repository which contains the right version of the library.

Questions: 1> Is my analysis accurate. or am i missing some important points?
2> Which repositories should I add? (I now have the default repository plus RPMFusion
3> Is there anything else I should know about this?

***Dangermouse*** · #2 20th September 2009, 05:31 PM

Quote:

su
rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-1.noarch.rpm
yum list AdobeReader*

And now use yum again to install the right (language) AdobeReader for you.

edit or install/use yumex to find the one you want.

leonardevens · #3 20th September 2009, 09:27 PM

I finally managed to get acroread to work by a rather inelegant method. I used yum list and yum install to find and install the desired library libxml2.i586. That required a couple of other packages because of dependencies. acrorad still didn't work, not being able to find libgdk_pixbuf_sl-2.0.so.0. That turned out to be in the 586 pakage for gtk2. yum install then added 44 packages because of dependencies, and acroread finally loaded and ran. I suspect I don't need all those packages just for acroread.

The acrobat reader is still not called as a plugin for firefox. Instead,when clicking on a pdf file on the web, acroread is brought up as a separate program. In fact that is also the way that acroread works with firefox under Fedora 9 on my older 32 bit machine, so I am used to it. If anyone can explain why that happens, please let me know..

nt4cats · #4 8th November 2009, 04:38 PM

For Fedora 12 on x86_64, I added the repository and installed the AdobeReader_enu package as directed above in DangerMouse's post. I was getting warning messages upon launching acroread (see below), and the menus were not rendering properly.

Warning message (repeated a dozen times): (acroread:23882):

Code:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

I fixed this by installing the package gtk2-engines.i686 (the x86_64 version of this package was already on my machine).

daw617 · #5 19th December 2009, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nt4cats

For Fedora 12 on x86_64, I added the repository and installed the AdobeReader_enu package as directed above in DangerMouse's post. I was getting warning messages upon launching acroread (see below), and the menus were not rendering properly.

Warning message (repeated a dozen times): (acroread:23882):

Code:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

I fixed this by installing the package gtk2-engines.i686 (the x86_64 version of this package was already on my machine).

Bingo. This worked for me. I'm posting here to maximize the chances that this turns up in a Google query. If you get the following warning message:

Code:

(acroread:31236): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

Then the fix is to do

Code:

yum install gtk2-engines.i686

This worked for me on Fedora 12 x86_64 with Adobe Acrobat reader ( F12 64-bit acroread ).

Velociraptor · #6 19th December 2009, 02:11 AM

I found adobe stuff so bloated. And use foxit reader to view pdf files-its much more smaller and efficient than Acrobat Reader.

scott9harvey0l · #7 29th January 2012, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daw617

Bingo. This worked for me. I'm posting here to maximize the chances that this turns up in a Google query. If you get the following warning message:

Code:

(acroread:31236): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",

Then the fix is to do

Code:

yum install gtk2-engines.i686

This worked for me on Fedora 12 x86_64 with Adobe Acrobat reader ( F12 64-bit acroread ).

Thanks for this solution I was having the same problem. Hopefully this will make the the pdf look betterhttp://forums.fedoraforum.org//forum/images/smilies/smile.gif