I really, STRONGLY advise against using Adobe's proprietary bloatware. Adobe's reader is 43M, evince (including libraries) is less than half a meg. And evince has a lot more useful functionality (not just less anti-features) On 7 February 2010 17:01, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your help I have got it sorted. I can open them with Document Viewer by right clicking in the search files utility. now. The Adobe download didn't install, error "not i386 archetiture" so I am giving it up for lost for now.
You could always "force" the architecture (in other words: the installer won't complain that you're running 64bit), as the first comment on the following blog entry states:
http://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/2008/02/installing-adobe-reader.html
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