I am getting an error trying to run Adobereader 7.0.9 on Sun Solaris. This is a newly installed program. The error I received was:
"ld.so.1: /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/sparcsolaris/bin/acroread: fatal: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory"
I googled it and came up that I need GNOME package. Where can I get GNOME for Solaris 2.6? Thanks!
There is a version of Acrobat Reader V5 out there that will read most PDF files, and doesn't require the vast repository of crapola that V7 requires.
If you are new at this running OSS on Solaris biz, you have three options:
1) Upgrade to Solaris 8, 9, or 10, and use the OSS packages Sun has built for these, on the "supplemental" CDs. Package names start with "SFW".
2) Use packages downloaded from Sunfreeware.com and its mirrors. Package names start with "SMC". The SFW and SMC packages are compatible, to the extent that fiddling with your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is required.
3) Build everything yourself.
Your options, in decreasing order of easyness IMHO, as far as reading PDFs are concerned:
- Aforementioned Acrobat Reader 5
- Install or build Ghostscript/Ghostview view and its PDF reader, using options 2 or 3.
- Upgrade to Solaris 10, install Gnome, options 1, 2, or 3
- Try and build everything yourself from source.
