[CentOS] AcroRead failing miserably in CentOS 5.0

Sat May 19 00:46:43 UTC 2007
centos at 911networks.com <centos at 911networks.com>

On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:35:44 -0700
"Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I could swear that this was working just last week, but now when
> I run the Adobe Acrobat reader, it hangs.  If I run it "directly"
> (/usr/bin/acroread) with -DEBUG as the first argument, I get an
> infinite loop of:
> 
> expr: syntax error
> 
> I tried removing and reinstalling it, but no change.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

# gedit /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

Make the following changes:

Line ~418:
From:
   echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
To:
   echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Line ~643:
From:
   MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
To:
   MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"


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