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Unable to install Adobe Reader v7.0 in Debian.
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 2:45 am |
| Hello.
After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1, and
burned the files to a CD-RW (on dial-up at home so I downloaded it at
work).
I copied the AdobeReader/ to my Debian box and tried to install it, but
it didn't get far:
AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
:bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
Any ideas why this error message comes up? I am using Debian r3.1 with
Kernel 2.6.10-k7. Thank you in advance. 
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| ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
> After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
>
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
> to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1, and
> burned the files to a CD-RW (on dial-up at home so I downloaded it at
> work).
>
> I copied the AdobeReader/ to my Debian box and tried to install it, but
> it didn't get far:
>
> AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
> :bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
>
>
> Any ideas why this error message comes up? I am using Debian r3.1 with
> Kernel 2.6.10-k7. Thank you in advance.
Try:
sh ./INSTALL
If that does not work than either you got a bad download, WinZip trashed
the tar.gz, or you have a bad burn.
ANC
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 2:45 am |
| Al. C <no_spam_acanton_takeout@adams-blake.nospam.com> wrote:
> ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Try:
> sh ./INSTALL
> If that does not work than either you got a bad download, WinZip trashed
> the tar.gz, or you have a bad burn.
Well, it got farther a little with your suggestion.
: command not found
'/INSTALL: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token '
'/INSTALL: line 10: `echoawk ()
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 2:45 am |
| Al. C <no_spam_acanton_takeout@adams-blake.nospam.com> wrote:
> ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Try:
> sh ./INSTALL
> If that does not work than either you got a bad download, WinZip trashed
> the tar.gz, or you have a bad burn.
OK, I think I had a bad copy. I guess CD burning the decompressed files
(in Windows XP) was a bad idea. I tried burning .tar.gz file, and de-
compressed in Debian, and was able to install.
[sighs at the OS differences]
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| Laurenz Albe 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| In comp.os.linux.setup ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1, and
> burned the files to a CD-RW (on dial-up at home so I downloaded it at
> work).
>
> I copied the AdobeReader/ to my Debian box and tried to install it, but
> it didn't get far:
>
> AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
> :bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
>
>
> Any ideas why this error message comes up? I am using Debian r3.1 with
> Kernel 2.6.10-k7. Thank you in advance.
This must be question 14 of Joe Halpin's comp.unix.shell FAQ:
http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq.html#N
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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| Virgile Prevosto 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| ANTant a écrit:
> AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
> :bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
>
Hello,
this is just a wild guess, since I haven't tried to install AcrobatReader
7 myself, but INSTALL is more likely to be a text file containing
installation instructions than an installation script (which'd rather be
called install or install.sh).
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| Robert Tucker 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| Virgile Prevosto wrote:
>ANTant a écrit:
>
>
>
>
>Hello,
>this is just a wild guess, since I haven't tried to install AcrobatReader
>7 myself, but INSTALL is more likely to be a text file containing
>installation instructions than an installation script (which'd rather be
>called install or install.sh).
>
>
>
It's a shell script and contains the licence and installation script.
I certainly needed to run it as root to get it to install in the default
location though.
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| Robert Tucker 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
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>OK, I think I had a bad copy. I guess CD burning the decompressed files
>(in Windows XP) was a bad idea. I tried burning .tar.gz file, and de-
>compressed in Debian, and was able to install.
>
>
Is it possible to get it to run with a browser plugin on Debian (as 5.0
does)?
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| Mike Mol 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
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ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
> :bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
What do you get when you type "head -1 INSTALL" in the directory? (IOW,
what's the first line of the file say?
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| Robert Tucker 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| Mike Mol wrote:
>ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
>
>
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>What do you get when you type "head -1 INSTALL" in the directory? (IOW,
>what's the first line of the file say?
>
>
>
#!/bin/sh
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| Markku Kolkka 2005-03-16, 7:45 am |
| ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
>
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
> to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1,
Bad idea, this is where you broke the file. Move the .tar.gz file to
your Linux system and decompress it there.
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Markku Kolkka
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| (ANTant@zimage.com) scribbled:
> After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
> to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1, and
> burned the files to a CD-RW (on dial-up at home so I downloaded it at
> work).
>
> I copied the AdobeReader/ to my Debian box and tried to install it, but
> it didn't get far:
>
> AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL :bad interpreter: No such file or directory.
.... geez, why didnt you just burn the *tar.gz itself to a CD,
then copy it down to the Linux box and install it?
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and all theoretical chemists know it. - Richard P. Feynman
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| > >OK, I think I had a bad copy. I guess CD burning the decompressed files
> Is it possible to get it to run with a browser plugin on Debian (as 5.0
> does)?
Its documentation says yes and there are instructions. Since I don't like
reading PDFs in my Web browsers, even in Windows, I left it alone.
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| > > to a Windows desktop, decompressed the .tar.gz file with WinZip v8.1, and
[vbcol=seagreen]
> This must be question 14 of Joe Halpin's comp.unix.shell FAQ:
> http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq.html#N
It looks like WinZip and/or Roxio's CD Creator messed up the formatting
in INSTALL script file. Now, the question is: Is there a way to fix this
problem without redownloading? Just curious.
Thank you in advance.
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| > >>AdobeReader$ ./INSTALL
> It's a shell script and contains the licence and installation script.
Yes, it is a shell script.
> I certainly needed to run it as root to get it to install in the default
> location though.
Yeah, but root had the same results. It was a bad copy since I extracted
and burned the files in Windows which messed up INSTALL's formatting. 
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| > > After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reade...inux_enu.tar.gz
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Bad idea, this is where you broke the file. Move the .tar.gz file to
> your Linux system and decompress it there.
Yep, I did that and it worked. That stinks that it happens. I wonder
if it is possible to fix this if I ever run into this problem. At least,
I learned something new. ;)
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| ANTant@zimage.com 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| mjt <mjtobler@removethis_mail.ru> wrote:
> (ANTant@zimage.com) scribbled:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> ... geez, why didnt you just burn the *tar.gz itself to a CD,
> then copy it down to the Linux box and install it?
Oh, I wanted to save time at office to decompress files than at home
(slow box). ;)
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| Hiding in Plain Sight 2005-03-16, 5:46 pm |
| On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:48 -0600, ANTant wrote:
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> It looks like WinZip and/or Roxio's CD Creator messed up the formatting
> in INSTALL script file. Now, the question is: Is there a way to fix this
> problem without redownloading? Just curious.
>
> Thank you in advance.
Is the .gz file still around if not re-download it. I just downloaded both
the tar.gz and the rpm, both installed fine on my FC3 system. BTW thanks
for the URL, Adobe hasn't officially released this yet.
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| On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 at 20:13 GMT, ANTant@zimage.com eloquently wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
Why oh why not decompress the tarbol under Debian??? In other words
burn the tarbol to CDRW in windows, copy it over in Debian and go
from there...
N.Emile...
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