Adobe Reader 7.0.8 fails to start on FC6 (expr: syntax error)
Problem:
Adobe Reader 7.0.8 fails to start on FC6 with a stream of the following error messages:
expr: syntax error
Details:
The Adobe startup script has a problem properly detecting the gtk version used in FC6. For details, see this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-September/msg00664.html
To work around this bug, make the following two modifications to the specified lines in /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread:
418# echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\\1\\2\\3/g' 419 echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\\1\\2\\3/g'
644# MIN_GTK_VERSION="240" 645 MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"