Subject: Re: pdf readers
To: Christofer C. Bell <cbell@inetdb.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/09/2000 23:05:31
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> There is a workaround to get Adobe Acrobat Reader to work on
> NetBSD/i386.  If you look at the acroread file, you'll note that it's a
> shell script.  What I do on my NetBSD/i386 system is edit the script
> that so it thinks it's running on a Linux system.  Here is a patch you
> can apply to the acroread script to make it work:

	You could also use the patch in the pkgsrc acroread package:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/print/acroread/patches/patch-aa?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

	(or better still, just use pkgsrc :)
	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html