From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 20:41:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E4216A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C726343D41 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from omniBSD@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 8963 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2005 20:41:01 -0000 Received: from acute.anhedonia.com (HELO [10.20.30.10]) (omni@[66.93.24.213]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Apr 2005 20:41:01 -0000 Message-ID: <4261791B.3050107@speakeasy.net> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:44:11 -0500 From: Ash User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041104 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: modelt20@canada.com References: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net> In-Reply-To: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:04 -0000 modelt20@canada.com wrote: > Hello! > > On the Adobe website, there are two packages for > Acrobat Reader 7 that can be retrieved, one is a > .tar.gz, and the other is a .rpm. RPM files > are normally for RedHat, and the other is probably a > general linux file. > >>From your list of required files, I notice you list a > requirement of rpm-3.0.6 9. Does this mean I should > download the RPM version? Is there a reason for one > instead of the other? > > When the package is downloaded, do I just use the > command > pkg_add -r acroread > (that is, after I expand the file if necessary)? > > Or do I need to do a > make install clean > in the directory created by the expansion? > > I have been seeing PDF files created in versions of > Acrobat later than 5, and they won't open in AcroRead5. > > Thanks for your help. > > Harold Acrobat7 is in the ports tree. Assuming you do not have an earlier version of Acrobat Reader installed, then all you have to do to install Acrobat Reader 7 on your FreeBSD system is: # cd /usr/ports/print/acroread7 # make # make install It above will automagically take care of everything for you. You will probably want to make sure that your ports tree is up to date before trying to install Acroread7. Refer to the handbook for more information: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -Ash