[LBo] Adobe Acrobat Reader on FC6 x86_64

Andrew Henry adhenry at bredband.net
Tue Mar 27 11:29:25 CEST 2007


Bert Van Kets wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have Fedora Core 6 x86_64 running on a Intel Dual Core 2. I'm very
> happy with it.
> I am trying to get Acrobat Reader running on this 64 bit system, but
> it fails to start. I just get a list of "Application Exception"
> messages when I try to start it from the console.
> Does anybody know if it's possible to run Acrobat Reader on a 64bit
> system?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bert
Is there any specific reason you need Acrobat?  I use Evince under
Gnome, and for most everyday tasks, like simply reading PDF docs, it
works like a charm and is *much* faster than Acrobat.  Is there any
specific feature you need that isn't included in Evince (or kPDF under KDE)?

--andrew

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