acroread: ERROR: Cannot find installation directory
After last apt-get upgrade on squeeze, I started getting this when starting acroread. In case you get this too, edit your /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread-en and sync the $ver assignment on the top to be the same as your /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion.
It seems that debian-multimedia acroread packaging is rather broken; the acroread-en script is provided by acroread-debian-files package which has a random 0.version and is not bound to a particular acroread version, but hardcodes this dependency on a particular acroread-data package version.
Christopher Marillat explained to me that acroread in testing has been removed due to CVE issues. If only the implicit dependency of acroread-debian-files would be hardcoded in the packaging system, things wouldn’t break when such things happen.
I strongly suggest using the officially supported Ubuntu partner repository instead.
See http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/04/adobe_reader_now_available_thr.html detailed HowTo.
Thanks,
-Varun
thanks a lot!
The worked perfectly for me in Debian squeeze; I needed to change “9.3.1” to “9.3”. Re the comment; I think using an official Ubuntu site might not be a good idea for Debian.
You do this to set $ver:
ver=`cat /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion`
This can sync ALWAYS Automatically the version it to whatever inside
/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion