Running Adobe Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu x64

Bill Malchisky  April 10 2013 01:00:00 AM

Adobe Acrobat Reader is i386 code that needs one i386 library file --- when installed on an x64 OS --- omitted with the native x64 installation of Ubuntu 12.x. As such, you'll see this error.



To fix the issue, run this command



From here you'll see this window, which will flow into several screens of files being unpacked and then installed. It's quite a lot. When finished though, Acrobat will run.



The process continues with suggested packages and alerting the end-user to what new packages will also be included.



Tip -- if you try to run a program from the GUI and it fails to start, the most efficient way to grasp the underlying problem is to run the program from within a terminal window--as illustrated in the first image. This way, when the program fails, you can immediately see the reason, then begin the process to find a solution. Example, for Acrobat Reader, the program just stopped running inside the GUI, but running $acroread provided the error pictured. From there, the solution is much easier to derive.

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