Comments on: Fix Adobe Acrobat Reader’s “expr: syntax error” message

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:33:37 +0000

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By: name goes here

name goes here — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:17:17 +0000

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By: c516a

c516a — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:03:57 +0000

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# which acroread
/usr/bin/acroread
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# vi /usr/bin/acroread

Go to line 417,
echo $mfile| sed ’s/libgtk-x11-$[0-9]*$.0.so.0.$[0-9]$00.$[0-9]*$\|$.*$/\1\2\3/g’

In this line, after second [0-9] add a “*”. ( ie, [0-9]* ).

Before:

echo $mfile| sed ’s/libgtk-x11-$[0-9]*$.0.so.0.$[0-9]*$00.$[0-9]*$\|$.*$/\1\2\3/g’

By: Patricia Weber

Patricia Weber — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:03:58 +0000

I have a dell computer and it came with adobe reader and it worked good until now I don’t know what happened,Maybe when I did some upgrades or something, but never the less it does not work now. IS there an reinstall or a fix that I can do. When I open it, It is just blank and will not let me accept the agrement. What can I do to fix this. oh I have windows xp. Thanks Patty

By: xian

xian — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:55 +0000

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By: mahesh

mahesh — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:44:37 +0000

Hi,
Its great and good tip.

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By: Yasuo

Yasuo — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:04:44 +0000

Hi All!

Downloaded 7.0.9, and recognized, that Adobe distributes the package with acroread script patched as you mentioned above. And the script does not work. So I had to investigate further. The solution is simple. You have to delete all lines of function check_gtk_version_and_set_lib_path() between the opening and closing brackets:

gtk_version_and_set_lib_path() {
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH = $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
return 1
}

It works for me, without any annoying error or warning messages. Hope this helps.

Good luck,

Yasuo

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:09:42 +0000

I did differently: this is what I suggest

1) open firefox
2) click preferences
3) click Content
4) do nothing (I typed an extra line by mistake)
5) click File Types, How …. (ie. the last clickable button)
6) select adobe reader (ie deselect plugin..)
6) pretend that you are happy (ie say OK)
7) open a pdf file over internet (anywhere it did not work so far)
8) you are asked open or save: before saying open, click the button mandating to use this program (ie acroread) to open always such files
9) open the file
and that’s it (it will always work, ie until the next upgrading at least.