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I am new to Ubuntu, but I believe I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed correctly. I am trying to install Acroread using AdbeRdr9.4.6-1_i386linux_enu.deb that I downloaded from the Adobe web site. How do I do this?

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Worth noting that Ubuntu comes with a PDF reader (evince, aka Document Viewer). Acrobat does have more features, but if all you want to do is read PDF files it shouldn't be necessary. – chronitis Feb 21 '13 at 9:59
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Why would you need adobe reader? Evince document viewer works perfectly in ubuntu and it do what you can do in adobe reader and more, it supports PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt) and it is installed by default on ubuntu 12.10. So don't bother yourself installing adobe reader. – Mehdi Feb 24 '13 at 11:21
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Evince doesn't show animations and some certain tests. – Keivan Jun 13 '13 at 1:41
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It also doesn't support forward and back buttons. – B. Bischof Aug 8 '13 at 22:07
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It also does'nt show annotations correctly, some documents are printed and/or displayed incorrectly, filling forms is not visually compatible with the adobe reader. – peq Mar 21 '14 at 11:39
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All Ubuntu versions prior to 13.10

To install Adobe Acrobat you will need to enable the canonical partners repository in the Software Sources tab of Update Manager

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Use Dash and search for Software Sources or Software & Updates in 13.04 and later.

If you don't see those options in Software Sources, you can use the following command from a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"

Then in a terminal you can update and install acrobat reader:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install acroread

It is strongly recommended from a security point-of-view to use the version in the repositories.

If - for whatever reason - you wish to download directly from Adobe and install then the following instructions apply:

Using firefox navigate to:

Choose the following options as shown in the image - i.e. download the .deb package

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When the Download button is clicked:

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Leave it at the default to open in Software Center where you can install it.

If you have set your downloads to automatically save in your Downloads folder:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr*.deb
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NOTE for 12.10 64bit users - this Q&A applies - askubuntu.com/a/70380/14356 – fossfreedom♦ Nov 6 '12 at 12:42
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I am on 13.10 and even with the partners repos I can't install the reader. Ideas? – giovannibotta Mar 19 '14 at 13:19
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Also not working on 14.04. – Fernando Kosh May 17 '14 at 13:35
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Is there an updated answer for this? (The site has changed it's format since 2011) Or possibly workaround using the Unix version. – No Time Aug 17 '14 at 19:12
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REVISED: 2016-Nov (minor wording only)

For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 16.10, 32- or 64-bit

[ adapted from: http://ask.xmodulo.com/install-adobe-reader-ubuntu-13-10.html ]

Adobe Reader 9 is not in the 'Partner' repository for 13.10 (or later).

  1. Download Adobe Reader (32-bit), from Adobe site:

    From here: ftp.adobe.com .. reader .. 9.5.5

    Check MD5SUM after downloading, input

    md5sum AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

    the output should be 

    88036c68998d565c4365e2ad89b04d51 AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

  2. Open a command line, change to the directory containing the .deb file.

  3. Install package, forcing to accept 32-bit version and any errors:

    sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

  4. Add the missing 32-bit libraries: (skip this step for 32-bit)

    sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 lib32stdc++6

  5. (Optional) Run for first time, to get icon in Unity menu bar.

    acroread <path>/<MyDocument>.pdf

For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  1. Add 'Canonical Partner' repository

    sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) partner"

  2. Update your system

    sudo apt-get update

  3. Install Adobe Reader, and font extensions

    sudo apt-get -y install acroread acroread-fonts

  4. (Optional) Run for first time, to get icon in Unity menu bar.

    acroread <path>/<MyDocument>.pdf
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acroread-fonts doesn't seem to be on 12.04. Where can it be found? – Craig McQueen Feb 21 '13 at 3:36
    
it is in the medibuntu ppa – GM-Script-Writer-62850 May 2 '13 at 1:47
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acroread-fonts not located in ubuntu 13.04 +1 for the general approach for the release – ezdazuzena Jan 21 '14 at 14:38
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Adobe's site doesn't provide linux downloads any more. – Yvon Aug 15 '14 at 22:19
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Also, see here for an AppArmor profile to attempt to harden Acrobat Reader: github.com/seanlano/seanlano-apparmor/blob/master/apparmor.d‌​/… – seanlano Apr 10 '17 at 10:15
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For saucy (13.10), you can include the raring partner repository. This is how I did it:

sudo echo -e '# for acroread\ndeb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring partner' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raring-partner.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install acroread

apt-cache show acroread
# Package: acroread
# Architecture: amd64
# Version: 9.5.5-1raring1
# Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, acroread-bin, nspluginwrapper
# [...]

apt-cache policy acroread
# acroread:
#   Installiert:           9.5.5-1raring1
#   Installationskandidat: 9.5.5-1raring1
#   Versionstabelle:
#  *** 9.5.5-1raring1 0
#         500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring/partner amd64 Packages
#         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Can I suggest to add the info, that one only needs to do the first three lines. And that rest is to show what has been installed (and is thus optional). – MadMike Jan 22 '14 at 13:08
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sudo echo string > protected_file doesn't work. Instead use echo string | sudo tee protected_file – Dennis Williamson Feb 18 '14 at 15:30
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This method also works for Trusty (14.04). See askubuntu.com/questions/455135/… for a discussion. – landroni Apr 25 '14 at 12:00
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You can do:

# sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.4.6-1_i386linux_enu.deb

But I recommend evince as better pdf reader. It's the default in quantal.

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why do you prefer evince? – Neutralizer Jan 28 '14 at 17:10
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Some PDFs must be viewed with Adobe Reader, unfortunately... bsaefiling1.fincen.treas.gov/… – philshem Aug 17 '14 at 13:00
    
I like Evince's speed, but its rendering (e.g. applying kerning) is rather sub par. – ᴠɪɴᴄᴇɴᴛ Nov 12 '14 at 17:00
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Acroread is now available in Quantal's partner repo.

See this Launchpad bug:

It says Precise in the title, but it applies to precise, quantal and raring.

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It seems that Adobe is not going to support linux in the near future (see post here), unless there is an increase in numbers of linux users requesting support. This can be done via filling the following Adobe feature request form: Feature Request/Bug Report Form.

As an alternative, you may want to switch to Foxit or master pdf readers, who are actually faster to open and provide more free features than Adobe reader.

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Ubuntu 16.10 on amd64 seems to require

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get -y install adobereader-enu

Without i386 in 64-bit env acroread gives file not found and GTK errors, so run:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get -y install libicu-dev:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

This may be redundant as main bin is i386

sudo apt-get -y install gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-* libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 libcanberra-gtk-module
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