How to install Adobe Reader X in Ubuntu?
I want to install Adobe Reader X (10 or 11) in my system. But there is no native application available for Linux. After doing Google I have seen that Adobe Reader 10.1.14 is given gold rating with Wine 1.5.19. But when I have tried, the installation is going fine without any error, but I could not find the Adobe Reader in menu. So I have tried it through PlayOnLinux and getting error that "wine crashed". I really need the Adobe Reader x as Adobe Reader 9 does not support lots of commenting and writing tools of Adobe Reader x. Please help me to install it.
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. I have tried to install Adobe Reader 10.1.14 and 11.0.01 with Wine 1.4 and 1.5.19 through PlayOnLinux.
Solution 1:
I'm not sure if you can accept this as a valid answer, but since what you want is a feature-rich PDF viewer program with "lots of commenting and writing tools of Adobe Reader x" I think you would be very happy with PDF-XChange Viewer.
It actually offers more features than Acrobat Reader using a much smaller disk space and memory!
You can either install it under Wine or - if you encounter any installation problems -simply download the Portable version and then create your own Launcher manually.
I've been using it with various versions of Ubuntu and Wine for a long-time, including the current Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit and the latest Wine version.
UPDATE
The new PDF-XChange Editor (which supersedes the PDF-XChange Viewer) works better under Wine with more or less the same features in the Free version.
Solution 2:
I've been struggling with this question for years. I need to run Adobe Reader because it has features that the EU government requires for editing complicated forms and those features are only available in versions later than 10.x - which are not supported on linux.
I finally found this article that described how to download and install free and legal virtual machines with WindowsXP that run under VirtualBox. Together with this free download of Adobe Reader for XP it all now works!!