AcrobatReader not available via Adept?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:49, Nicolas Miyasato wrote:
>On 16/09/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I have it via apt/adept
>
>root at miya-desktop:~# apt-cache search acroread
>acroread - Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
>acroread-debian-files - Debian specific parts of Adobe Acrobat Reader
>acroread-plugins - Plugins for Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader
>mozilla-acroread - Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader plugin for mozilla / konqueror
>
>Just do what Henri Girard said.
>
Unforch, the version adept pulls is 7.0.1, over 14 months old now, and for 
security reasons its now up to 7.0.5 if you pull from adobe.  But I don't 
think they have .debs, just an .exe that installs it and ignores the 
resident packageing system.

Ditto for firefox, but it has one update advantage over the rpm or tarball 
version in that when an update is available, it will pull it, install it, 
and restart itself without wipeing out your carefully installed plugins. 
AFAIK, none of the packageing systems extant can do that.  Which is one 
reason I used to run a link to the plugins dir, the installers could wipe 
it out all they wanted & all I had to do was remake the link. :)

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