working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed

[Uwe Grohnwaldt]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:32:40 -0500 (CDT)
Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:

>      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

if i remember correctly, portupgrade isn't in sysutils any longer. do
you have the latest portstree and read the UPDATING-file in /usr/ports?
portinstall print/acroread7 works fine here.

> 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.

if something is installed, look at pkg_info:

pkg_info |grep acroread

if acroread7 is already installed, uninstall it pkg_delete
acroread7-7.... and update the ports tree, look in /usr/ports/UPDATING
for the portupgrade part and fix the portupgrade problem. after that
you can user portinstall print/acroread7 :)

- Uwe