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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am not able to find Adobe reader or Gnu plot in the software centre. When I try to get all updates, the process goes through till about 95% and then doesn't proceed. Hence, I had to stop it there.

Can someone please help me to install these software's.

And also let me know why I am unable to view these on the software center screen.

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sudo apt-get update – Tachyons Dec 4 '12 at 5:35
Can you run sudo apt-get update in the terminal, and tell us weather it has any errors? – Seth Dec 4 '12 at 5:52
0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.92.200)] [Connecting to archive.canonical.com (91.189.92.150)]This is the message which I get and it does not proceed further – Karthik Dec 4 '12 at 6:04

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For Adobe Reader you need to download it from the official adobe site.

Open the terminal Ctrl-Alt-T and type this

wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.1/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.1-1_i386linux_enu.deb

then

sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9

*Important*

If you are running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu you will need to install this first

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
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