[Gutsy]Adobe Acrobat Reader isn`t working

[hauke]

Hi,

i downloaded the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader (tar.gz) from Adobe Webpage.

I used the standard installing path: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0

Starting the reader gives me following error message:

(acroread:10130): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

[hauke (hauke-heesch)]

Gutsy

[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

I just do like you and i get same error...

HTH

[Brian Harkness (maestro-bwh)]

Yes, it seemed to stop working when I upgraded one of my Feisty installs to Gutsy. I had to change how firefox handled pdf files (changed it to open with kpdf) because it froze my computer. Launching Acroread from the menu did nothing.

[Luca Carrogu (motoplux)]

same here.
I upgraded to gutsy and when I launch acroread from terminal I get a loop of
"expr: syntax error"

[Peter Miller (szr4321)]

This seems to be a duplicate of #128736 and #128212.

Some info on this can be found here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc4895e
http://groups.google.de/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/52bd5cdc626f0ed9/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=515971

The last link seems to provide a workaround.

[Peter Miller (szr4321)]

@motoplux: To fix the "expr: syntax error", you need to replace the line
  echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
with
  echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
in the acroread script. There are a lot of posts about this in the forums.

[Peter Miller (szr4321)]

Finally, to get rid of the error message that the PPKLite.api plug-in failed to load, I simply removed Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/PPKLite.api. Some searching indicated this has something to do with OpenLDAP and problems on 64 bit systems with acroread being a 32 bit application.

[art alexion (art-alexion)]

Same problem here. I'll try the workaround.