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 > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [log in to unmask] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204