Installing acroread on Linux 6 (64-bit)

Download the latest Acrobat reader file from the below link:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/

In our example we have used the Acrobat Reader 9.5 i.e. AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin.

Install this file in /opt directory..

Before running the acroread it has some pre-requisite packages needs to be installed along with this:

error 1 : acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2 linux

Install the libxml2 package using the YUM

Install Package :    yum install libxml2

error 2 : acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install Package :    yum install gdk-pixbuf2.i686

error 3:  acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory



Install Package :    yum install gtk2.i686

acroread
dirname: missing operand

So, acroread is now installed successfully and ready to be used in Linux Server.