This seems to be a fairly common problem. mine works. apparently
acroread is a libc5 program. That makes it odd that it works since I
don't recall installing libc5 at all and I didn't think RH 5.2 did it.
Anyways, run 'ldd acroread' and see if you find anything fishy.
Otherwise you can 'strace ./acororead | less' it and see if it is
looking for a file and can't find it. Did you choose the default
install? (btw, the acroread in .../Acrobat3/bin is a bash script, the
actual binary is in .../Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin.) so do ldd in
the Reader... directory and strace in the former directory. er, good
luck. it seems to be quite tricky to fix this unless it just works like
mine did. Anyways I'm guessing it has something to do w/ libc5 vs.
glibc. It could be that your pdf is not properly formatted and acroread
has bad error checking. try another.
- paul
Mark Hattarki wrote:
>
> Has anyone gotten acrobat reader 4 for linux to work. I've d/l'ed several
> pdf files and one of two things happens: 1) It dumps core or 2) I get a
> message saying that an error occurred when parsing the page, then nothing.
>
> Then I discovered that pdf files are actually text files, like postscript.
> So, I run dos2unix. But, that doesn't fix the problem. I get an error
> saying that there is no root object.
>
> Has anyone else already solved this problem? What is going on here?
>
> namaste,
> Mark
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