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.

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