John Hearns wrote:
> Rob Henderson wrote:
>> I have installed acroread 7 using either with the rpm package or with 
>> the
>> tar file. Both times the acroread program gives the error
>>
>> expr: syntax error
>>
>> repeatedly
>
> Try:
>
> sh -x /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread  <filename>.pdf
>
>
> There are 12 occurences of 'expr' in my copy of acroread,
> (Fedora Core 6 on my laptop, but I don't think that has any consequence).
> sh -x should tell you which line has the problem.
> Report this back to the list and we can try to figure it out.
>
This worked for me:
http://linuxon-vgn-a497xp.blogspot.com/2006/11/acroread-expr-syntax-error.html