title: Download Adobe Reader for Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/download-adobe-reader-for-linux/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 8626 created: 2014/10/13 09:55:57 created_gmt: 2014/10/13 13:55:57 comment_status: closed post_name: download-adobe-reader-for-linux status: publish post_type: post

Download Adobe Reader for Linux

If you're among those who still need to run Adobe Reader on Linux because you have to handle fill-in PDF forms that use Adobe's proprietary extensions, you can still get it -- for now. NOTE: This post updated for Fedora 21. While Adobe Reader for Unix is no longer one of the items available on their web site download page, it still can be found on the ftp site. ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/ The latest version is 9.5.5 (last updated in May, 2013), found at this url: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/ The software is packages in a few different formats: rpm, deb, bin and tar.bz2. Like, AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm. Because the Adobe software is 32-bit it is likely that admins wanting to install it will have to manually add several dependent libraries. As of this writing those libraries (found by doing an "rpm -ivh" against the package, whose output is more useful than the traditional "rpm -qRp") on Fedora Linux 21 are: libatk-1.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libdl.so.2 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libglib-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libGL.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libGLU.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgobject-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgthread-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libidn.so.11 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libm.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpango-1.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpangox-1.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libresolv.so.2 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 librt.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libstdc++.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.1) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.5) is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libX11.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libXext.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libxml2.so.2 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libXt.so.6 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 libz.so.1 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 Compatible packages for Fedora 21 to satisfy these dependencies are: libstdc++.i686 fontconfig.i686 atk.i686 libXt.i686 freeglut.i686 gdk-pixbuf2.i686 libxml2.i686 pango.i686 pangox-compat.i686 libidn.i686 mesa-libGLU.i686 gtk2.i686 Practice tip: If you're on a Red Hat system you can use "yum whatprovides" to determine what package will satisfy a dependency (note that the first time you use this feature yum will take some time to download the necessary data). For example:

[root@philx adobe]# yum whatprovides libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
gtk2-2.24.22-2.fc20.i686 : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs
                         : for X
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provides    : libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0

Also, be sure to specify append the "i686" architecture to the package name as I have done above when installing these dependencies. On 64-bit Fedora and Red Hat systems yum defaults to x86_64 if the architecture is not specified. Of course without the actual source code there won't be any way for Unix developers and admins to keep up with changes on their platform O/S's that will finally cause this version of Adobe Reader to fail to execute. As a result it would appear the best course of action will be to work towards eliminating all documents that use Adobe's proprietary features, perhaps by porting them to Open Document Format. As others who have treated the issue point out, many of Adobe's proprietary features are problematic from a software security standpoint. So beginning the process of replacing them with more open and secure format makes sense at this point. It is possible that Adobe did us all a favor by abandoning Unix development, as it now forces the various Unix communities (including Linux) to find more open and secure alternatives.

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