I make considerable use of genealogy data which these days is more often that not provided on CD in PDF format rather than online.
It has cost me quite a bit over the years to get these CDs. The first edition of Berks FHS Baptisms @ £20 which I received two days ago is an example, next year there will be a second edition to get as there are lots of parishes missing! For quite a few years I've used (non-free) acroread to access these files quite simply because the free readers (evince, xpdf, et al) just aint good enough. Acroread allows me to open files in multiple tabs which is fairly important to me as I'm always needing to access baptism, marriages and burials for a any particular parish at the same time. The alternatives don't seem to be able to do this. The problem is that acroread is a 32 bit application and Debian Sid seems to be having problems with 32 bit libs at the moment with the result that I cannot re-install acroread from the Debian multimedia site. Nor can I install the deb which can be downloaded from Adobe. It fails with this error > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu: > adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4); however: > Package libgtk2.0-0:i386 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing adobereader-enu (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > adobereader-enu and it isn't possible to install libgtk2.0-0:i386 as trying to do so requires installation of 55 other packages but that throws up another error > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6 : Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.17-2) but 2.17-1 is to be installed. > libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.17-1) but 2.17-2 is installed. I'm not sure how to get around this problem. It isn't the first time I've had problems using 32 bit libs on a 64 bit system but in the past I've been able to find a solution. I lost the 32 bit libs by a bit of careless clicking whilst doing an update ;-( For the moment acroread is running on my system but without the 32 bit support libs I don't know how long it will keep going, a reboot is definitely a no-no at present. any suggestions welcome (apart from suggestions I use a free software package that is!) -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
