Hello.

After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader...nux_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/reader...nux_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

Al. C <no_spam_acanton_takeout@adams-blake.nospam.com> wrote:
> ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

> > Hello.
> >
> > After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
> >
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader...nux_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.

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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Al. C <no_spam_acanton_takeout@adams-blake.nospam.com> wrote:
> ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

> > Hello.
> >
> > After reading http://tinyurl.com/5ztbs newsgroup thread, I downloaded
> >
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader...nux_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.

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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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

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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Virgile Prevosto wrote:

>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).
>
>
>
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.

ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

>
>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)?

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?

Mike Mol wrote:

>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?
>
>
>
#!/bin/sh