From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 20:41:56 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 6904916A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC8943D39 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9849 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMu6y-000Ga4-CY; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:41:52 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E350E154968; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:42:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1770258CB71; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:41:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:41:45 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: modelt20@canada.com Message-Id: <20050416224145.7401a953.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net> References: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 20:41:56 -0000 On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:28:53 -0700 (PDT) modelt20@canada.com wrote: > When the package is downloaded, do I just use the > command > pkg_add -r acroread > (that is, after I expand the file if necessary)? no, pkg_add -r acroread would install from a remote freebsd-site onto your machine if you would have a package meant for freebsd-install you would do : pkg_add foo.tbz for more info on installing packages : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html in this case you have 2 packages for linux, you can after e.g. tar xzvf acroread_linux_blabla.tar.gz try to load them through linux-emulation for more info on linux-emu on freebsd : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html > 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. you could also try xpdf, the build-in pdf-viewer in konqueror or evince : su - cd /usr/ports/graphics/evince make install clean exit evince btw, the nice handbook is also reachable in /usr/share/doc/en/books/ GL!