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Cannot run Reader (acroread) in Linux

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From: required
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:23
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I've tried to install it twice, using the .bz2 file. It unTars fine. When running INSTALL it tells me /opt is the default install dir and asks me if I want to change. I change it because I do not recall ever seeing anything in the /opts dir, in 6 years of running multiple Linux distros. (It doesn't appear to matter though since the library acroread cannot find actually IS installed.)

This reality aside, I tried for the second time, to install it in /opt today, but did so as a non-root user, so it failed. When it failed I installed it in my path, underneath my home dir. When I run acroread it returns the same error (but the path on the left of the colon reflects a different path, obviously).

The error refers to what is says is a missing library, but it is not missing. The error does not say where it is looking, which makes debugging essentially impossible.

/usr/local/bin/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Help from anyone is welcome.
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