May be its there for 32-bit but on 64-bit it still is missing. I do have partner repo enabled and your command says this and I am uptodate till today on packages.
$ apt-cache policy acroread acroread: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: -- Karmic 64 bit: Package acroread is missing from partner repo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437566 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs