From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 20:31:03 2004 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 31DF316A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:31:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C959043D3F for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:31:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:34:38 -0500 Message-ID: <411FC803.7070103@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:30:59 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Beishuizen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Aug 2004 20:34:39.0013 (UTC) FILETIME=[493F9550:01C48307] cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 4 on alpha? 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: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:31:03 -0000 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > > Hi, > > When I had 4.7-RELEASE running on my alpha I had acroread4 installed. > Now I run 4.10-RELEASE but Acroread4 isn't in the ports anymore. I have > Acroread3 installed but this version is very old and can't display > some pdf's > correctly. Unfortunately version 5 is i386 only. > > I like to use Acroread4 again on my alpha. Is this possible? > > Marco > If linux compatibility is enabled (I have to assume it was before, as Adobe doesn't port directly to *BSD) and working (again, I assume as I run on i386), you could get the tarball and try to configure/build/install from source: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/ Of course, if linux compatibility is working, I would think you could run 5.x, also; so either there *is* a difficulty in getting it to run on your architecture (and therefore it hasn't yet been marked OK for alpha) or else the port maintainer just hasn't yet found time to set things up properly for alpha. I imagine that directing your question towards the ports@ list or perhaps even the alpha@ list might give you some insight --- but I would definitely look at the list charters first; I read neither of them and don't know if this would be "on topic" for those lists. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.