acroread is still distributed as an rpm in the SL CERN extras repo.  They
also distribute flash-plugin and some other things.  Access to these repos
seems to be publicly allowed.

[[log in to unmask]]$ rpm -qi acroread
Name        : acroread                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 9.5.5                             Vendor: Scientific Linux
CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Release     : 1.slc6                        Build Date: Wed 15 May 2013
05:37:52 AM PDT
Install Date: Thu 16 May 2013 04:14:57 AM PDT      Build Host: lxdist04
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM:
acroread-9.5.5-1.slc6.src.rpm
Size        : 141472048                        License: Commercial,
Distributable
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 15 May 2013 06:17:46 AM PDT, Key ID
5e03fde51d1e034b
Packager    : CERN Linux Support <[log in to unmask]>
URL         : http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
Summary     : Adobe Reader for viewing PDF files


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Earl A Ramirez <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>
>
>
> On 15 January 2014 12:47, Paul Robert Marino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> FYI they also did the same thin with Shockwave Flash player for Linux too.
>> Apparently Adobe doesn't care about the linux user market share any more.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> On Jan 15, 2014 10:56, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/15/2014 4:20 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote:
>> >
>> > Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has
>> not
>> > fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it
>> > makes totally sense to remove it from their repo.
>>
>> I'm not disagreeing with you but it's still a breathtakingly crappy way
>> of handling it. Acroread for linux is still available as a regular web
>> download, so it's not remotely obvious that it's desupported unless you
>> follow the news independently. For example it might have been worth a
>> final mention on Adobe's "acrobat for unix" blog
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/ rather than leaving that abandoned
>> since 2010!
>>
>> Graham
>>
>
> You can find Adobe Reader version 9.5.5 at [0]
>
> [0] ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Earl Ramirez
>



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