Hello, I am having an argument with a co-worker about how the Acrobat Reader is commonly installed on Linux Systems and like to have your input on this. Here is my point of view: Acrobat Reader comes on most purchasable Linux distribution installation media and can be installed in this case running the specific administration interface under root where it will be installed on a default file system location. Another common method is downloading from Adobe's Web site. Two options are possible: RPM and .tar.gz Most commonly, one would download the RPM for convenience reasons and then do a rpm -i ... under root unless the browser pops up a default installer dialog. When the .tar.gz version is selected, one would extract the archive and then run under root the ./INSTALL choosing the default selections offered there. As an exception, one would choose a non-default location ( under /opt or /usr/local), maybe to run two versions parallel and then maybe link from /usr/bin/acroread.new to the new install location. Maybe, in a non-standard way, for development purposes, one would install under a user's home directory. My guess is that it's much less than 5 % of all Linux installations of Acrobat Reader possibly doing this. Now, my co-worker proclaims that this (under a user's home directory) is the common method to install Acrobat Reader under Linux and this opinion is percolated up the management hierarchy. I don't even want to start speculating for the underlying reasons here. I appreciate your comments on this. Maybe I am off, who knows? If that's a too global question - where did your install it, if you did? Thank you, Samartha ``
