How do I install Adobe Acrobat Reader from the repository?

Solution 1:

It's a bit more manual to install Adobe Acrobat Reader in Ubuntu 14.04, but it's not hard.

Open a terminal.

Type:

cd ~/Downloads && wget -c http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

That downloads the DEB file from Adobe and puts it into your Downloads folder. Next type:

sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

That will install Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you are on a 64 Bit machine, you may need to add the missing libraries that Nim mentioned:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 lib32nss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libstdc++6:i386

If you want Acrobat Reader as your default application for PDF's, then type:

mimeopen -d *.pdf

It will display a list of programs (it displayed 3 for me). Select the number that has Acrobat Reader. It will open Acrobat Reader and say it can't open '*.pdf'. Ignore that error and close Adobe Reader. You should be set now.

UPDATE:

For 18.04, the i386 files get installed this way:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libnss3:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libstdc++6:i386

Solution 2:

Instead of listing all dependencies explicitly, you could just do this:

sudo apt-get install -f

That will fix all unresolved dependencies automatically.

So the whole sequence of commands has to be like this:

cd ~/Downloads && wget -c http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo apt-get install -f