Randall, On Friday 15 April 2005 12:35, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Colin,
On Thursday 14 April 2005 19:16, Colin Carter wrote:
Randall,
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In this case, it's well worth the effort. Version 7 is so vastly superior to version 5 that there really is no comparison.
And now that Adobe has released it officially and you can use the regular front-door download page (instead of an FTP server), it's plenty easy.
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Regards, Colin
Randall Schulz
Thanks for your feed-back. I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm but then realised that it may not work for SuSE 9.1 under 64 bit O.S. Any ideas?
The stand-alone Adobe Reader will work fine under a 64-bit system, since it emulates a 32 bit environment as needed. If you're running 64-bit browser, then I think the 32-bit plug-in supplied with the reader package won't work and you will not be able to view PDF files within the browser. To my knowledge, there's no 64-bit plug-in from Adobe, but I'm not 100% sure about that. That I can manage: I will just have to open the reader from the menu. A drag, but (yet another) consequence of 'upgrading'.
Regards, Colin
Randall Schulz However, just as I predicted, things always go awry with upgrades. I download with Konqueror and, right at the end, Konqueror invokes Yast which asks me if I want to install, so I click 'install'. Yast opens up with nothing in the window. That is, I think Yast has gone walk-about. No worries, I can install the rpm. Not on your Nellie: the rpm file has been deleted by Yast. Three times I tried it and 38MB is not quick to download. Any ideas on how to down load the rpm without Yast grabbing and disposing of it?
Now you understand why I hate this round-about and wanted to get away from M$? Thanks for any sympathy and ideas. Regards, Colin