I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
having run into them.

First, when I unzipped and untarred the file, unlike *every other* gz
file I've worked with, it did *not* create its own folder, but plopped
everything into my home folder! Well, not too many files, and they're
all in UPPER CASE so easy to spot & remove later.

Did the su command to run a root session, and ran ./INSTALL. Seemed to
go well. Exited from the root session, and then found I had NO write
privileges to my home folder. Back to root session, i discovered that
the owner of my home folder was no longer me, but a five digit number!
What the??? As root, I did
chown my_id my_id
in the /home folder to fix up ownership of my (own) folder!

Is this a bug in INSTALL, or something I should have known about?

Wiping the sweat from my brow,
Nick.

Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
>
> Is this a bug in INSTALL, or something I should have known about?
>

It's a bug in INSTALL; courtesy of the geniuses at Adobe.

One way to prevent such damage is to use an unarchiver with
a preview window; I use TkZip, it's very nice:

http://www.woodsway.com/TkZip/

Chris Sorenson <csoren@isd.net> writes:

> Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
>> Is this a bug in INSTALL, or something I should have known about?
>>
>
> It's a bug in INSTALL; courtesy of the geniuses at Adobe.
>
> One way to prevent such damage is to use an unarchiver with
> a preview window; I use TkZip, it's very nice:
>
> http://www.woodsway.com/TkZip/

less <file.tar.gz> also shows you the contents of the tar ball.

btw, this implies it's not a bug in INSTALL, but a badly created tar ball.

--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Nick J Chackowsky wrote:

> I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
> I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
> having run into them.
>

Out of curiosity: Is there a specific reason(s) why the "already-included"
"xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
Adobe Acrobat.

--

Greg Heilers
Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 10.0
.....

Eat right, stay fit, and die anyway.

Greg Heilers <gNOSPAMheilers@earthNOSPAMlink.net> writes:
> "xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
> a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
> Adobe Acrobat.

there's also gv, which i prefer.

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Joost Kremers
Verbing weirds language -- Calvin

Greg Heilers wrote:
> Out of curiosity: Is there a specific reason(s) why the "already-included"
> "xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
> a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
> Adobe Acrobat.

Firefox plugin.

~Mik

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:48:38 -0600, Nick wrote:
> I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
> I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
> having run into them.
>

FYI, Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 was just released.

Release focus: Minor security fixes

Changes:
A security patch was applied to solve a problem reported with
malformed mail containing PDF attachments. For details see
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331153.html.

Brad


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Greg Heilers wrote:

> Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
>
>> I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
>> I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
>> having run into them.
>>
>
> Out of curiosity: Is there a specific reason(s) why the "already-included"
> "xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
> a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
> Adobe Acrobat.
>

Yes, but how do you get xpdf or gv to work as a plugin (or whatever) with
FireFox? At least with FireFox there is a web page somewhere that explains
how to install acroread... and I think that's why so many people use it.

Al C.

Greg Heilers wrote:
> Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
>
>
>>I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
>>I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
>>having run into them.
>>
>
>
> Out of curiosity: Is there a specific reason(s) why the "already-included"
> "xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
> a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
> Adobe Acrobat.
>
I'm trying to get Scribus working, and I recall having read at
scribus.net that installing Adobe Acrobat is a recommended part of its
complete dtp setup.

I'll see if I can dig up the reference..

-n-

Al. C wrote:

> Greg Heilers wrote:
>
>> Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded linux-509.gz from adobe, and have had some difficulties.
>>> I'll either be warning you about them, or you'll be laughing at me for
>>> having run into them.
>>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity: Is there a specific reason(s) why the
>> "already-included"
>> "xpdf" will not meet your needs? I have always thought that "xpdf" does
>> a *better* job at presenting .pdf documents, than the *nix version of
>> Adobe Acrobat.
>>
>
> Yes, but how do you get xpdf or gv to work as a plugin (or whatever) with
> FireFox? At least with FireFox there is a web page somewhere that explains
> how to install acroread... and I think that's why so many people use it.
>
> Al C.

Check out the final couple of paragraphs of "man xpdf". It tells you
exactly how to do this. Before I had the Acrobat plug-in, this is
what I used. I am not sure if it works if one *also* has the plug-in
installed.

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Greg Heilers
Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 10.0

.....

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because
of the people who are evil, but because of the people
who don't do anything about it.
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Greg Heilers
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Our people have not been earnest enough, have thought
too much of themselves & their ease, & instead of
turning out to a man, have been content to nurse
themselves & their dimes, & leave the protection of
themselves & their families to others.
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