HP-UX 11.11 and Adobe reader 7.0.8

[Marco Zorcic]

Adobe offers "AdbeRdr708_hpux_enu.tar.gz" which requires GTK+ 2.6.8, OpenGL, OpenLDAP, libiconv, libxml2 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 libraries.
We have bundle "GTK 2.6.8.00.00 GTK+ 2.6 The Gnome GUI Runtime Toolkit" and the other libraries installed. Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Thunderbird 1.5 are running.

Executing the script:
/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
opens a window showing the Adobe icon and on the bottom information about loading and registering.
But the reader doesn't show up.

[Dave Hutton]

We were just installing this the other day.
After exporting our DISPLAY and trying to get the reader to launch it seemed like it never would come up.

For us the guy working on it gave up and came back to it later and noticed it took a while for the reader to finally pull up. After the first time it seems to show up much faster.

How long have you waited? I think he waited 5-10 minutes before it popped up.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Few things:

1) Last stable version I knew of was 5.0.8
2) When I installed it I had to in X run the program and accept the licnese agreement. Then it worked.

Only an HP-UX version will work on HP-UX.

SEP

[Marco Zorcic]

The package is for HP-UX and Adobe's system requirements are:
HP-UX
* PA-8800 Processor
* HP-UX 11, 11i v1, 11i v2. HP-UX 11 users - GTK+ libraries 2.6.8 [required]
* Desktop Environment: CDE
* 512 MB of RAM (1024 MB recommended)
* Up to 330 MB of available hard-disk space
* Firefox 1.0 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

We have PA-8500 and HP-UX 11.11

I know that for the first time it takes a while to show up, so I checked the status using "top" there the command "acroread" disappears after about 30s.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Theo,

do a "ps -ef|grep acroread"

if the acroread process does not show up then it must has crashed somewhere!

search for the core file and verify if it is related to the acroread program by doing:

file core


let us know.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Marco Zorcic]

In a terminal window:
/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread which is a ksh script after changing the first line to #!/bin/ksh -x
the last 2 lines are:
+ [ -f /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread ]
+ exec /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread

After some seconds the prompt is shown.

Executing: /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread
shows the message:
/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread must be executed from the startup script.
Exit 1

There is no core file.
I guess my setup isn't ok for the program acroread.
But what is the program missing?

[Dave Hutton]

The one you are supposed to launch with is:
/opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

Not:

servera:root /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin # ./acroread
./acroread must be executed from the startup script.

The top one eventually does run the bottom one.
If I launch acroreader with sh -x I see my last line going to that one.
+ exec /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread

[Marco Zorcic]

Hi Dave,

I changed our CDE action setup for "Adobe Reader 5.0.8" to "Adobe Reader 7.0.8". After I realized that there is no action I started from terminal window the given startup script: /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread

This script ends and the reader doesn't show up so I analyzed the script which ends with the command:
exec /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/hppahpux/bin/acroread

Theo