working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed

[Scott Bennett]

     On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:57 -0500 Rick Voland <rpvoland at facstaff.wisc.edu>
wrote:
>Scott Bennett wrote:
>>      I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 system
>> "pkg_add -r acroread7" does not find a package.  "portinstall acroread7"
>> fails initially on an error return from a brandelf command, as it should,
>> because the brandelf is being applied to a shell script rather than to an
>> executable binary.
>>       Does anyone on this list know where to find a version that will
>> install and run correctly?
>> 
>
>Did you try "pkg_add -r print/acroread7" or "portinstall print/acroread7" ?
>
     I hadn't put the "print/" into the commands, no, but that was what the
commands seemed to be looking at anyway.  But here:

Script started on Fri Mar 30 15:20:54 2007
hellas# pkg_add -r print/acroread7
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz' by URL
hellas# portinstall print/acroread7
cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
hellas# exit
exit

Script done on Fri Mar 30 15:21:44 2007

     Note that the above portinstall command was run after my initial attempts
to use portinstall, during which some files appear to have been installed and
that brandelf command had failed when it tried to brandelf a script called
/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/bin/acroread .  That script appears at a quick
glance to be an installation/configuration script for setting up an English-
language version or some such thing.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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