How to install adobe acroread on Debian
Squeeze
After upgrading my Debian from testing/unstable to Debian Squeeze.
The apt-get utility suggested to remove a couple of packages
including the flashlplugin package and
acroread
After the package got wiped out as a requirement I was missing the
acroread package.
Logically I wanted to get back the package with
apt-get intsall
acroread
For some weird reason at that time the package was no longer
existing for installation. The only packages that I could find with
apt-cache search acroread were:
acroread-debian-files - Debian specific parts of Adobe Acrobat
Reader acroread-fonts-jpn - Japanese fonts for Adobe acrobat
reader
nevertheless none of the two aforementioned was not installable,
e.g. whenever I tried to install them I got the some failed
dependencies.
After a very prolonged investigation I figured out the whole issues
were caused by my
debian-multimedi defined package sources
in
/etc/apt/sources.list file.
My wrongly defined repository for debian-multimedia looked like
so:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main
However it appears the
acroread and acroread-plugins
packages are provided by the non-free part of the debian-multimedia
repository, therefore I needed to sbustitute the above repo
definition as follows:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main
non-free
Further on as a last resort to
have the Adobe Acroread properly
installed and running on my Debian Squeeze it was necessary to
execute the following few commands:
debian:~# apt-get update
debian:~# apt-get install acroread
acroread-plugins
Now I have my acroread back installed to my debian squeeze system
;)