Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:41:45 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: modelt20@canada.com Cc: freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Acrobat Reader 7.0 Message-ID: <20050416224145.7401a953.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net> References: <20050416132853.14070.h021.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net>
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:28:53 -0700 (PDT) modelt20@canada.com wrote: > When the package is downloaded, do I just use the > command > pkg_add -r acroread > (that is, after I expand the file if necessary)? no, pkg_add -r acroread would install from a remote freebsd-site onto your machine if you would have a package meant for freebsd-install you would do : pkg_add foo.tbz for more info on installing packages : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html in this case you have 2 packages for linux, you can after e.g. tar xzvf acroread_linux_blabla.tar.gz try to load them through linux-emulation for more info on linux-emu on freebsd : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html > Or do I need to do a > make install clean > in the directory created by the expansion? > > I have been seeing PDF files created in versions of > Acrobat later than 5, and they won't open in AcroRead5. you could also try xpdf, the build-in pdf-viewer in konqueror or evince : su - cd /usr/ports/graphics/evince make install clean exit evince btw, the nice handbook is also reachable in /usr/share/doc/en/books/ GL!
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