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.



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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/

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