{"id":53,"date":"2009-08-12T20:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-08-12T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:24:55","slug":"acroread-error-cannot-find-installation-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"acroread: ERROR: Cannot find installation directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last <code>apt-get upgrade<\/code> on squeeze, I started getting this when starting acroread. In case you get this too, edit your <code>\/usr\/lib\/Adobe\/Reader9\/bin\/acroread-en<\/code> and sync the <code>$ver<\/code> assignment on the top to be the same as your <code>\/usr\/lib\/Adobe\/Reader9\/Reader\/AcroVersion<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that debian-multimedia acroread packaging is rather broken; the <code>acroread-en<\/code> script is provided by <code>acroread-debian-files<\/code> package which has a random 0.version and is not bound to a particular <code>acroread<\/code> version, but hardcodes this dependency on a particular <code>acroread-data<\/code> package version.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Marillat explained to me that acroread in testing has been removed due to CVE issues. If only the implicit dependency of <code>acroread-debian-files<\/code> would be hardcoded in the packaging system, things wouldn&#8217;t break when such things happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,31,8],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-acroread","tag-adobe","tag-debian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}