Both the main and non-free components are necessary since one of acroread's dependencies is acroread-debian-files which is in main. Named distributions ie jessie or wheezy are ok too. You can replace testing with stable for Wheezy. The relevant sources.list line is: deb testing main non-free
ADOBE ACROBAT INSTALLER DOWNLOAD
I see no need to download from the Adobe website, as the acroread package from can still work ok. The process should be very similar for Wheezy.
I am running Jessie, here is how I get adobe reader to work. Note: This answer installs from the same repository which use to be at but has now renamed its domain to For more information on why this happened (and why this repository is no longer considered part of Debian), please see. NOTE: Adobe installs Acrobat Reader in /opt, which is icky, and in violation of the FHS. Here is a screenshot of Acrobat Reader running on Debian Wheezy. Now invoke acroread using a non-root account.
ADOBE ACROBAT INSTALLER INSTALL
We can figure out which package to install using apt-file. Gives /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now, attempting to launch acroread with $ acroread $ sudo gdebi AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb Using gdebi: $ sudo apt-get install gdebi Using dpkg and apt-get: $ sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb Alternatively, using the second method, gdebi will automatically resolve the dependencies. This would seem to be a hack, but it basically gets apt to do the heavy lifting for us and install/fix any missing or broken packages with relatively little fuss. If you pick the first option, it will require you to tell apt-get to fix any broken installed packages. Now attempt to install Adobe Reader with either dpkg and apt-get OR gdebi. deb packages.įirst we need to add the 32-bit architecture to our system (multiarch), then update. Adobe only provides Reader as a 32-bit binary, there is no 64-bit variant, but this is perfectly fine, we just need to install it a bit differently than most. The file we just downloaded is the 32-bit version of Adobe Reader. I typically do this using wget like so: $ wget Īfter doing this we should have the file, AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb. I'm not 100% on this particular point, but no matter, we press on.įrom here we can download the. Apparently they only offer the package in this language. This denotes that we're downloading the English version of the tool. This will take us to another page with the link, "enu". For this example we'll be downloading 9.5.5, so we select that link. If you go to the 2nd URL above you'll get to a page that looks like this:įrom this page you can select whatever happens to be the latest version of Reader at the time you're attempting to do this.