Acroread 7.0.8 - libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl

[Carol Clark]

I have recently installed acroread 7.0.8 on HPUX 11.11.

When trying to convert pdf to postscript using the following command :-

cat /tmp/tim.pdf|/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread -toPostScript -scale 100 -size a4

I receive the following error :-

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl

/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
The /usr/lib/dld.sl file exists on the server, however the libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl does not.

Does anyone know where I can download this from ?

Thanks for you help in advance

[harry d brown jr]

try: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnome/gdk_pixbuf-0.20.0/

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harry d brown jr

[spex]

Carol,

Try here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnome/gdk_pixbuf-0.20.0/

PCS

[Carol Clark]

Have installed and unfortunately made not difference

[harry d brown jr]

You also need to make sure you have the dependencies installed:

libgcc gettext glib gtk+ jpeg libiconv libpng tiff xpm zlib

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harry d brown jr

[Jay Core]

Carol - did you ever get a solution to this problem?

[Carol Clark]

No unfortunatley ! I did download all the dependencies, but still made no difference

[Jay Core]

Same here - I'm still working on it, and if I get a solution I'll let you know.

[Jay Core]

Carol, Hi. Here's what I found:

Check these out:

http://www.unix.com/archive/index.php/t-14919.html

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=496433&admit=-682735245+1153934191848+28353475

OK - based on these threads, I surmised that I needed my customer who was getting the error (/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory -
when trying to print the Acrobat file) to put the location of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl (which I found in /opt/gtk2.6/lib on my server) in the environment variables from where he was running his command.

It was being run from an Oracle Instance, so our DBA added "/opt/gtk2.6/lib" to SHLIB_PATH variable in the following two environment files:

ERP2.env
ERP2_detux4.env

ERP2 being our database name
detux4 being our server hostname

Let me know how it goes!!

Good Luck,
Joe

[Jay Core]

Oh - one last note - our DBA also had to bounce application services to make the environment variable changes take effect.

[Carol Clark]

Thanks Joe - not sure when I will have a chance to have another go at this, but will definately let you know how I get on.

Thanks again

[Joe Hartley_1]

I'm in the same boat as Carol. I have to install Acrobat Reader and downloaded version 7.0.8 on my 11i system, and get the same library not found.

I have downloaded all the dependencies and the recommended gdk_pixbuf-0.20.0 package for my system but acroread still cannot find the libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl library.

There's a very good reason for this: a find of the entire system for libgdk_pixbuf_xlib* shows that while I have the file /usr/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib.sl there is no such file as libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl on the system.

Upon closer examination, it looks like the gtk+ package listed as a dependency is actually 1.2.10, and would not provide the gtk+ 2.6.8 libraries listed as a dependency by Acrobat reader 7.0.8. There is a gtk+2-2.2.2 package available for HP-UX 11.22, but since I'm on 11.11, I think my only options are to compile gtk+2 from source or try to find an earlier version of Acrobat Reader. Neither is a particularly appealing task, as Adobe's site makes it hard to find anything other than the current version.

[Carol Clark]

Joe - not sure, but take a look at this
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/firefox/index.html
Is this what we need ?

[Joe Hartley_1]

It sure looks like the right thing. I'd download it and try it out, but I gave up. It turned out that I had v5.0.x of Adobe Reader on an rp3440 documentation CD, and that installed and ran with no problem at all.

It sure would have been nice if that link on the Adobe website that said "Download new and previous versions of Adobe Reader" actually would have let me choose something other than 7.0.8

Good luck!

[Carol Clark]

I Agree Joe - the only reason I was trying to upgrade was because the old version of Acroread produces ACUfiles in the /tmp directory. The new version is supposed to resolve this.

[Frederik Dutoit]

stumbled upon this link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/333102.html

After installing the gtk+ 2.6 successfully, the
library was there but still not found ...
I exported the correct path but the error remained.

[Frederik Dutoit]

--Correction to my last post--
After exporting the correct env var (SHLIB_PATH) the error is gone.

[Mark Fisher_4]

Frederick,

Can you tell me which GTK+ kit you installed and the platform you are on (PA-RISC or Itanium)? I have the exact same problem on an Itanium based server. NONE of the GTK+ kits seem to have the libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.sl file. They just have the libgdk_pixbuf_xlib.sl file or the libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so file.

Does anybody even know if acroread will run on Itanium servers?