acroread command giving error

iamjayanth · #1 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008

Hi,

When I run the command acroread it is giving error

ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

When I look at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/ an exicutable file named acroread is there. When i run ./acroread from that directory it is working . What can i do so that I can give acroread command from anywhere . Can aliases help?

wempy · #2 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008

at a prompt type

Code:

which acroread

which on my machine returns

Code:

/usr/bin/acroread

see if that is a symbolic link to the binary you mentioned. If it isn;t rename it (acroread.old maybe) and create a symbolic link to that binary.

Code:

ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread /usr/bin/acroread

or try adding the adobe bin directory to your path.

iamjayanth · #3 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008

Thanks for the quick reply.

On " which acroread " command the following is displayed.

/sbin/acroread

I checked /sbin/acroread file it was a shell script. Not an exicutable. Then I renamed that file to acroread1 and create a soft link to the exicutable I mentioned earlier in /sbin.

ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread /sbin/acroread

Then I typed acroread command but the error returned was same.

Can I use aliases. Some thing like

alias acroread= .//usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

I am not sure about the syntax. But will this help?

wempy · #4 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008

so, if you run the program from within its own directory it works fine? but run from anywhere else, it fails? That is probably why there is a shell script to start it, but why put it in /sbin/ which is normally only in root users path, not a normal user.

You could create a new shell script which switches to the acroread bin directory, then runs the binary fromn there

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