Pacman and Adobe Reader Download Issue

swamprat · 08-23-2018, 08:06 PM

Greetings all,

I just installed Manjaro KDE. I thought I would try this distribution as DistroWatch showed it as the most downloaded.

So far not impressed. Adobe reader doesn’t appear to be included and I would like to install it.

Pacman and associated commands are strange to me as I’m coming for CentOS 7 Yum.

Can anyone help me out with this as whatever I tried with the Pacman commands didn’t work? Thanks.

frankbell · 08-23-2018, 08:37 PM

If Manjaro has KDE, it should have the Okular *.pdf reader, which I find superior to Acrobat Reader in every way. If you don't like Okular, many other native Linux *.pdf readers are out there.

ondoho · 08-24-2018, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swamprat

So far not impressed. Adobe reader doesn’t appear to be included and I would like to install it.

if you prefer proprietary, closed source software, you will be more impressed with an operating system that follows that philosophy.

swamprat · 08-24-2018, 09:07 AM

Yes, as stated above the Manjaro version I installed is KDE.

Thanks all for replying to my question but regretfully no one has directly answered the question of “how to install Adobe Reader” using Pacman or some other facility in Manjaro.

I’m running CentOS 7, Mint 18 and the latest LTS for KUbuntu, all are nice Linux distributions but CentOS is by far the one I like best. Installing software with YUM is just a snap, no crazy distribution specific commands needed.

Thanks again.

nikgnomic · 08-24-2018, 03:33 PM

Why do you think you need proprietary package?

Manjaro KDE should already have pdf reader installed

No Adobe package available on Manjaro repositories, only in AUR

Pacman is from Arch upstream; 'distribution-specific command' does not apply,
Like yum from Red Hat and originally Yellow Dog
manpage for yum confirms command options similar to package managers

Arch Wiki Pacman Rosetta page has cross-reference list of package manager commands
but Red Hat commands listed for rpm rather than yum

ondoho · 08-25-2018, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swamprat

Thanks all for replying to my question but regretfully no one has directly answered the question of “how to install Adobe Reader” using Pacman or some other facility in Manjaro.

i personally regret that people start using linux, only to then complain that they cannot install all the same proprietary, closed source software they were used to from $PROPRIETARY_OS.
direct answer: don't. use one of the native linux pdf viewers instead.