On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 09:10 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I just installed Adobe Reader via RPM (AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.rpm) > on my freshly installed version of FC6. Launching it causes it to go > into some sort of endless loop with the message (when launched from the > command prompt) of: expr: syntax error > > Anybody else seen this or have a fix? ...Of course, 5 minutes after posting this, I found the fix in an Ubuntu forum. There's something in the acroread script that has a problem. To fix: 1) Edit the file /usr/bin/acroread 2) Replace the line (originally line 418): echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]* \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' ...with the line: echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]* \)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g' In my case, I just commented out the old line and added a new one under it so I would know what I did later on. Adobe Reader now works on my system. Cheers, Chris ====================== "Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide." -- Woodrow Wilson
