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#1 2008-01-09 07:57:40

BlueFightingCat
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Packages not appearing in Pacman

Hi,

I am desperately trying to install Acrobat Reader. I checked the extra repository and its available there as a package known as "acroread".

I tried to install this using pacman but it keeps telling me that "acroread" is not found or not available. This is a little wierd since it obviously is (or should be) in the repository. And my settings should be all ok since I installed Open Office, digiKam and Gimp.

Any ideas about what I am doing wrong?

BFC

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#2 2008-01-09 08:12:22

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Re: Packages not appearing in Pacman

try 'pacman -Sy acroread'
it could just be trying to fetch an old version that has been updated, but you haven't resynced yet.


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#3 2008-01-09 08:12:27

Allan
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Re: Packages not appearing in Pacman

Have you tried changing to a different mirror (files in /etc/pacman.d/)?

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#4 2008-01-09 10:06:23

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Re: Packages not appearing in Pacman

Are you by any chance running Arch 64-bit? The acroread package is only available for i686 (blame Adobe I guess). You can use xpdf or epdfview instead, or any other PDF reader.


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#5 2008-01-09 10:10:15

BlueFightingCat
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Re: Packages not appearing in Pacman

Hi Vex,

I am indeed. However I heard that it would be possible to run Acrobat if I have the 32-bit libraries installed. I think I managed to install all the 32-bit libraries so how do I force pacman to find it/install it?

BFC

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#6 2008-01-09 10:23:06

Allan
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Re: Packages not appearing in Pacman

have you looked through this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ ?

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