It is enough of an nuisance that every time you upgrade you have to remember to explicitly re-install acroread, but now with 11.2 you have gone and disabled the thing and left NO alternatives!
$ ( acroread Violin.pdf &)
$ ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/suse-do-not-grab-server.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/suse-do-not-grab-server.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
$ env|fgrep PRELOAD
$ type acroread
acroread is /usr/bin/acroread
That is completely nuts. The only other PDF viewer was xpdf-poplar, whatever that is. Once I figured out that “xpdf-poplar” was not really the program but the package name and guessed out that “xpdf” was what I wanted, all I needed to do was to guess at which print command would make it happy to print. Fortunately, I remembered that “lpr” sends stuff to the line printer. I mean Laser Printer.
FOLKS: the Adobe company is not evil. If I say I want the stuff that does not have politically correct licenses, and I want to mess with documentation stuff, then far more likely than not, I really want an acroread that actually works. I do not want some programming project code that requires me to know which obtuse print command is going to make it happy.
Rant over. Now, to my question: why is acroread broken?
P.S. I also tried xv, but the text was completely illegible.
It is enough of an nuisance that every time you upgrade you have to remember to explicitly re-install acroread, but now with 11.2 you have gone and disabled the thing and left NO alternatives!
I do not have a solution to your problem, but this “* NO alternatives! *” assertion is either subjective, or inaccurate.
Go to YaST > Software > Software Management and under search also add the criteria “description”. Then type “pdf” in the search field. You will see that there is also “okular” and “evince” in addition to “acroread”.
deano_ferrai, I think thats an interesting deduction and it has me wondering if that is the case.
I confess the statement:
left me totally puzzled.
I’ve never had to explicitly re-install acroread except when doing a clean install and moving from one openSUSE version to another.
In truth, from what I saw reference to sometime back on the openSUSE mailing lists, acrocread is very close to being completely removed from the openSUSE distribution as a Novell packaged rpm, as the replacements (okular and evince) in the openSUSE community are considered by some to be more than adequate.
In truth, from what I saw reference to sometime back on the openSUSE mailing lists, acrocread is very close to being completely removed from the openSUSE distribution as a Novell packaged rpm, as the replacements (okular and evince) in the openSUSE community are considered by some to be more than adequate.
I only ever use it with Windows/Vista environments. Okular is my preferred pdf reading app.