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Install Adobe in the home directory
cd ~/local mkdir opt cd opt mkdir AdobeReader
Download the latest version of Adobe Reader for Linux distributions, (tar.bz2
package)
ftp ftp.adobe.com
ftp> cd pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x ftp> get linux-5010.tar.gz
cd ~/local/src wget ......... tar.bz2 tar -xjvf xxxx.tar.bz2 cd DIR ./INSTALL
and specify ~/local/opt/AdobeReader
as installation directory.
Create a symbolok link to the acroread
executable,
ln -s ~/local/opt/AdobeReader/bin/acroread ~/local/bin