Installing Adobe Reader on Debian
To install Adobe Reader [1] to read some PDF files on a Debian system, only check or add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list [2]:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge mainThen, execute the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread
You're done! If your browser is based on Mozilla, it will be able to show the PDF in his own window, without opening a full Acrobat Reader window. If this is not what you'd expect, don't install mozilla-acroread.
Important Note: Adobe Reader is not free and we advise reading the user licence agreement on Adobe's website. Free softwares to read PDF exist and include the following: evince, xpdf, gv, gpdf, kpdf, …
For your information, Adobe Reader 7.0 takes up more or less 100 MB of disk space on GNU/Linux, while Evince only takes less than 2 MB (mostly because the last uses libraries already present on the system). Without even considering that it starts 3 times slower and is not prelinkable…