AcrobatReader not available via Adept?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Sep 16 13:41:46 UTC 2006


On Saturday 16 September 2006 02:35, john d. herron wrote:
>Greetings.
>As a rather new user of Kubuntu Dapper I tried to find and install the
>free Acrobat PDF Reader (crisper rendition compared to e.g. Kpdf), but
>it appears not to be available through Adept.
>Am I overlooking something? Should I simply download it from the Adobe
>portal, or is there perhaps a better solution?
>Any help will be thankfully appreciated - jdh

AFAIK you'll have to get it from the adobe site.  While its free, the 
licensing is incompatible with the GPL, and cannot be made a part of any 
distro that I know of.

That said, the latest one works very nicely here.

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