Thank you to everyone who responded, your help was invaluable.
Below are the responses I received. I have listed them anonymously, if you
would like to contact one of the people directly, please let me know.
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I've never installed it on Solaris, but have installed it in linux many
times.
Did you have root access when you did it? If not, then it might be
trying to install to a location where you do not have permissions, such
as in /usr/local/acrobat or something like that.
I suggest that you open a terminal window, navigate to where the
installer is, and execute it with something like:
./install
I'm not looking at the distribution right now, so I'm not sure what the
name of the installer is.
If you do this, then you should see any errors that occur.
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The unexpected end of file message EOF means the tar file is no good. I
am in the midst of installing some new Sun computers and can take a look
at it on Monday. There is a reader that is installed with Vnmr software
to read the manuals but it is an old version.
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EOF = end-of-file. Unexpected EOF means that the downloaded tarred file is
incomplete somehow.
Try downloading it again, making sure that the downloaded file size is
correct as indicated on the Adobe website.
An alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader, if all you want to do is
read/print PDF files is the open source software "ghostscript" and its
companions, which is available for many platforms.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader comes with VNMR. You should not need to
install it separately.
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To save drive space, when I last installed vnmr (6.1C), I did not
install the online manuals. Without the manuals, I don't currently
have acrobat installed on my machine now to see its location. As I
recall, it may be in /vnmr/acrobat or /vnmr/adobe . Even if you did
not load the manuals with your installation of vnmr, you can still
re-insert the cdrom, execute /cdrom/cdrom0/load.nmr as root, and
install the online-manuals by just checking the one item in the list.
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You can download Acrobat reader for a Sun from the Adobe website. After
it is installed, and by default it is in /opt/Acrobat5, you need to
include acroread in your path. If you do not have root powers you can
just install it in your own directory. To use it you need to include
acroread in your path.
I do not know if you are using the Varian user setup. If that is the
case then instead of using .cshrc where indicated use .login instead.
All the path additions for the Varian software have been made there and
you can just add on to that.
If you have root powers and do the default install then you need to add
the following line to your .cshrc file - set path=(/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
set path=( $path /opt/Acrobat5/bin )
or more usefully make a link to /usr/local/bin
ln -s /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread /usr/local/bin/acroread
and put /usr/local/bin in your path instead.
If you do not have root powers you can install it in your own directory
and make the appropriate link in your own .cshrc (or .login) file.
The whole issue is that you must have a path the the executable - or
everytime you want to use acroread you have to type
/opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread or ~/Acrobat/bin/acroread which is work.
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Adrienne B. Hoeglund
NMR Specialist
AOC, LLC.
Received on Tue Jul 20 2004 - 12:09:53 MST