[CentOS] acrobat reader for x86_64?

[John Austin]

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 10:28 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >> > Behalf Of Fred Smith
> >> >
> >> > Adobe doesn't seem to have acroread for x86_64 linux, or at least I
> >> > don't see it anywhere.
> >> >
> >> > Anybody know otherwise?
> <snip>
> >> What would be the advantage running having this software in 64b?
> >
> > the "advantage" would be the diff between having it and not, as opposed
> > to having it in 64-bit versus 32-bit.
> <snip>
> Adobe *does* have a 64-bit repo. Install it as follows:
> 
> rpm -ivh
> http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> and enjoy.
> 
>         mark
> 
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This is from a Fedora 18 machine - I believe it will be the same
for Centos but I have not tried !


I have both i386 and x86_64 repos configured and I cannot see
x86_64 version of AdobeReader


ja at minix ~ 1$ repoquery -a --repoid=adobe-linux-x86_64
adobe-release-x86_64-0:1.0-1.noarch
flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.273-release.x86_64


ja at minix ~ 2$ repoquery -a --repoid=adobe-linux-i386
...
AdobeReader_deu-0:9.4.2-1.i486
AdobeReader_enu-0:9.5.4-1.i486
AdobeReader_esp-0:8.1.7-1.i486
...
adobe-release-i386-0:1.0-1.noarch
flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.273-release.i386
--------------------------------------------------------------

I do get confused by the names of the rpm files though

[root at minix:~]$ yumdownloader AdobeReader_enu
down loads
AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm

which when it is installed becomes this
AdobeReader_enu-9.5.4-1.i486
NOT
AdobeReader_enu-0:9.5.4-1.i486

[root at minix:~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i adobe
AdobeReader_enu-9.5.4-1.i486
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
adobe-source-libraries-1.0.43-13.fc18.x86_64
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
--------------------------------------------------------------
Direct download of AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm also works
wget
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm


John