After reading this article, it's pretty easy to install Adobe's PDF reader on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
This will add the medibuntu repository & and it's keyring to your system.
Now run,
sudo apt-get install acroread
After the 75mb download you'll now have Acrobat Reader 8.12 installed on your linux machine.
Accessible in => Applications / Office / Adobe Reader 8
Adding Acrobat as the Default for PDF's
Now to make Acrobat Reader the default for PDF files, find one on your machine.
- Right-click Properties
- Click the Open-With tab
- Click Add
- Scroll Down the list of applications to see if Acrobat Reader is available, if not,
- Click Use a Custom Command
- And type in acroread
- Click Add
Close that dialog, now every time you double-click on a PDF it'll open in Adobe's PDF reader and not the standard one.
Good stuff,
