evince is the prefered way to read pdf in SL5 but like xpdf it does
not have acroread form capabilities.

acroread is a closed source product and you should get it from Adobe
for best utility:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html

It doesn't look like they have yum repositories for this like they do for flash.

On Jan 8, 2008 5:14 PM, Rachid Ayad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   Hello, I just installed SL5 but I did not find a way to install adobe
> acrobat utilities: acroread or xpdf .
>
>   1) acroread: "yum" does not know about acroread and also "Install/remove
> GNOME untility", so I did download some rpms from cern web site:
>
> http://glitesoft.cern.ch/cern/slc30X/i386/yum/updates/repodata/repoview/A.group.html
>
>   but rpms work for SL3 and does work for SL5 because of dependencies:
> XFree86-devel and XFree86-libs. So I tried to install with yum XFree86 but
> no success (it seems does not exist). Also search in GNOME
> "Install/Remove" of XFree86 does not give any substancial answer.
>
>   2) xpdf is not recognized GNOME "Install/remove" or yum.
>
>   Regards, rachid .
>
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