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Privacy Alert

Acrobat Reader 7 contains the ability for certain PDF files to inform a central database that they have been read. This by no means affects all PDF files, and will not be a problem at all for users who do not mind this ability. This "phoning home" can be prevented by disabling JavaScript in Edit -> Preferences -> JavaScript. References:

• http://lwn.net/Articles/129729

Installation (Hardy and later)

Adobe Reader 9 is available from the Canonical Partner repository. It can be easily installed by adding the Canonical Partner repository and installing the acroread package. It includes the standalone reader as well as the browser plugin.

Installation (Feisty and Gutsy)

acroread is no longer available in the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) and 7.10 (Gutsy) repos due to licensing nonsense (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/43780). It can be easily installed by adding the Medibuntu repository and installing the acroread package for the standalone reader and the mozilla-acroread package for the browser plugin. References:

• http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrreula.html
• http://www.medibuntu.org/

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Acroread Hangs

There are incidents of acroread hanging (confirmed with version 7.0.9-1 in Feisty). If you launch it from the terminal, it will spit out "expr: syntax error" endlessly. The problem can be fixed by editing the file /usr/bin/acroread

sudo editor /usr/bin/acroread

In the line

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

(use ctrl-W to search for it) an extra '*' must be added in the parenthetical expression after ".so.0.":

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

References:

• http://beranger.org/index.php?fullarticle=2501

Adobe Reader 9

Adobe Reader 9.1 is available in the Canonical Partner repository for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and later.

Adobe Reader 8

Adobe Reader 8.1.1 is available in Medibuntu for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). For older Ubuntu versions: It is officially supported (by Adobe) on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), and is also known to work on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). References:

• Supported Linux distributions for Adobe Reader 8.1.1
• Adobe Reader Download

To install, follow the instructions for "Installing downloaded packages" on the InstallingSoftware page.