[UCLA-LUG] Re: [UCLA-LUG]Adobe Acrobat

[Dan Helfman]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:19:41AM -0700, elliot jordan wrote:
> I have several copies now in my /opt directory-- linux-ar-405.tar.gz, 
> linux-ar-405.tar, and acroread-4.0-2.src.rpm. Sorry I need this spelled out. 
> Thanks, Elliot

I would highly recommend just getting a normal RPM (not a .tar.gz file or a
source (src) RPM). A tar.gz (or "tarball") is pretty much just a clump of
files.. If you install them, then you won't be able to uninstall them unless
you do it manually, which isn't much fun. The alternative (for Red Hat) is
the RPM format, which allows you to easily install and uninstall packages
with a single command. For example, to install:

rpm -i thepackagename.rpm

To uninstall:

rpm -e thepackagename

In your case, you have a source RPM, so you can either compile it into a
binary RPM like this:

rpm -ba acroread-4.0-2.src.rpm

(the RPM binary will end up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386). Or you can just
go download a binary RPM from wherever you got the src RPM. It'll be called
something like "acroread-4.0-2.i386.rpm".

> >On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:35:38PM -0700, elliot jordan wrote:
> > > Hi guys- I loaded Acroread from the source cd and also downloaded Adobe
> > > Acrobat4 (into /opt) from their website. Can't get it going. Any 
> >suggestions
> > > would be much appreciated. Must be some easy step I'm overlooking. I use
> > > Caldera Openlinux 2.3 (2.2.10). Is there a special untar/unzip command 
> >or
> > > install command?  Thanks
> >
> >What format is the file you downloaded in? .tar.gz? RPM? DEB?

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