On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:52:10 -0500 Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2010-03-27 15:12, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages > > (from debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain, > > > > acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acroread-plugins > > > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > > acroread: > > Installed: 9.1.0-0.4 > > Candidate: 9.1.0-0.4 > > Version table: > > *** 9.1.0-0.4 0 > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > How can I have acroread now? > > > > 9.1.0-0.4 is pretty frickin old. Are you running Lenny? > > Have you gone to http://www.debian-multimedia.org to see if there's > any news? > > BTW, the d-m.o unstable branch still lists acroread. > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > acroread: > Installed: 9.3.1-0.0 > Candidate: 9.3.1-0.0 > Version table: > *** 9.3.1-0.0 0 > 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/non-free > Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > multimedia does indeed have 9.3 however it also seems to be having problems: W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/sid/Release Unable to find expected entry or/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Although that didn't stop me from apt-getting acroread. If only evince handled forms correctly... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327142259.1a762...@windy.deldotd.com