Companion CD-ROM: utils/adobe/linux directory

The utils/adobe/linux directory contains the Adobe Acrobat Reader utility program for Linux. You need to install this program (or another PDF viewer) to read documents stored on this CD-ROM in Portable Document Format.

Directory Contents

[Root] CD-ROM Root Directory
[Dir] utils: Various useful utility programs
[Dir] adobe: Adobe Acrobat Reader
[Dir] linux: Adobe Acrobat Reader for the Linux operating system   This is the current directory
[File] README.html: The file you are currently reading
[File] install.html: Installation instructions for Adobe Acrobat Reader under Linux
[File] linux-506.tar.gz: Version 5.0.6 for all Linux distributions
[File] acroread_5.0.6-0.1_i386.deb: Version 5.0.6 for Debian GNU/Linux

Licensing

Please note that you must read and accept Adobe’s licence agreement before you can run Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not wish to agree to this proprietary licence, you may be interested in investigating alternatives like kghostview, xpdf, ggv and gv, all of which run under the Linux operating system.

You can download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe’s Web site or from a mirror site like the Australian AARNET Mirror.