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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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

> > 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

It looks like WinZip and/or Roxio's CD Creator messed up the formatting
in INSTALL script file. Now, the question is: Is there a way to fix this
problem without redownloading? Just curious.

Thank you in advance.
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:13:48 -0600, ANTant 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
>
> It looks like WinZip and/or Roxio's CD Creator messed up the formatting
> in INSTALL script file. Now, the question is: Is there a way to fix this
> problem without redownloading? Just curious.
>
> Thank you in advance.

Is the .gz file still around if not re-download it. I just downloaded both
the tar.gz and the rpm, both installed fine on my FC3 system. BTW thanks
for the URL, Adobe hasn't officially released this yet.

> Is the .gz file still around if not re-download it. I just downloaded both
> the tar.gz and the rpm, both installed fine on my FC3 system. BTW thanks
> for the URL, Adobe hasn't officially released this yet.

FYI to everyone. It is only a pre-release according to
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/w....4@.3bb8d962/3

It still pretty good. I'd rather use this one instead of the older version.
Yuck.
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 at 20:13 GMT, ANTant@zimage.com eloquently 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).
Why oh why not decompress the tarbol under Debian??? In other words
burn the tarbol to CDRW in windows, copy it over in Debian and go
from there...

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<ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message
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>> Is the .gz file still around if not re-download it. I just downloaded
>> both
>> the tar.gz and the rpm, both installed fine on my FC3 system. BTW thanks
>> for the URL, Adobe hasn't officially released this yet.
>
> FYI to everyone. It is only a pre-release according to
> http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/w....4@.3bb8d962/3
>
> It still pretty good. I'd rather use this one instead of the older
> version.
> Yuck.

Unless they've lightened it up a lot, I prefer xpdf.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:52:08 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> It still pretty good. I'd rather use this one instead of the older
>> version.
>
> Unless they've lightened it up a lot, I prefer xpdf.

RSS figures for the same file:

acroread-7: 55.7MB
xpdf-3: 8.7MB
gv-3.5.8: 3.4MB

But version 7 does look better than older ones at least.

Bob T.

> >> > 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).
> Why oh why not decompress the tarbol under Debian??? In other words
> burn the tarbol to CDRW in windows, copy it over in Debian and go
> from there...

I was trying to save time at home with decompressed files.
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