Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113754
adobe acrobat reader does not run
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: This is actually not a problem with xpdf but I had to select a component . I am not sure if this is the right place to report this type of bug but here goes: I installed the adobe acrobat reader.Installation went fine using the install script that is provided with the distribution but when I try to run the program it does not start: [daemmon@localhost rpms]$ cd /usr/local/Acrobat5/ [daemmon@localhost Acrobat5]$ ./bin/acroread Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.download ftp://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-508.tar.gz 2.extract 3. ./INSTALL 4. cd /usr/local/Acrobat5/ (default install location) Actual Results: output: Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted Expected Results: application should start Additional info:
Found solution in Adobe forum: I also observe the following error upon starting Acrobat Reader 5: $ /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $ Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". $ Aborted This is true whether I install the rpm or the tar.gz. Acrobat 4.05 works without problems. However, once I (accidentally) managed to start it up (God knows how, I guess I clicked some pdf file). So it works but on some RedHat 9 installs seems to be broken. But editing the acroread file (/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread) as above mentioned really works. After the line: install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader just insert these two line: LANG=C export LANG