Bug 49278 – startup script not installed for app-text/acroread

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Salim Fadhley 2004-04-28 06:51:42 UTC]

The ebuild installs the main binary but not the startup script. Attempting to start the binary directly produces the following message:

sal@imelda sal $ /opt/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
/opt/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread must be executed from the startup script.
sal@imelda sal $

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unmerge app-text/acroread, manually delete the old startup script if you have one.
2. emerge app-text/acroread
3. Try to start acroread by typing 'acroread'

Actual Results:  
Acrobat cannot be started because the startup script has not been copied / 
linked into /usr/bin 

Expected Results:  
If the startup script was there the program would have been executed normally. 

This is a recentish bug - boxes which had acrobat installed some time ago seem 
to work fine. This leads me to believe that Adobe may have changed their 
packaging structure.

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-04-28 10:47:36 UTC]

don't know why it broke, but it's fixed now :)

[Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-04-28 10:49:49 UTC]

Where did you find acroread script? It should be installed into
/opt/Acroread5/acroread. /opt/Acroread5 is automatically added
to your PATH by /etc/env.d/10acroread5 (you need to run env-update
if you want to update PATH before rebooting). If you had
acroread script at /usr/bin, I wonder where it came from.

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-04-28 10:57:52 UTC]

reverted my fix, since it was wrong, usata explained it ;)