acroreadsuse15

Adobe Reader 9.5.5 AppImage for OpenSuSE Leap 15.x

This is a workaround I created for running Adobe Reader 9.5.5 on OpenSuSE Leap 15.x.

Source that helped and inspired me: https://gist.github.com/cho2/79964a49a4f5f545853d3ebdfd1efe73

Warning

• Currently unable to run on OpenSuSE Leap 15.3
• This is an in-a-rush project so may be sloppy. Any help will be appreciated

Prerequisite

You need to install glibc-locale-base-32bit before running the appimage:

zypper install glibc-locale-base-32bit

How to use

• Fulfill the prerequisite above
• Because of github can't handle file larger than 25MB, so for now I uploaded the file into my drive. Download here --> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQbnmi65LBI4CkioxnakPPkAgLdAaUFq
• Right click on the downloaded AppImage file --> Properties --> Permissions --> check "Is executable" --> OK or you can simply chmod +x the file
• Run it by clicking it (or by using cli). Be patient, the first time loading it is a bit slow.
• Enjoy!

How to compile yourself

You can compile appimage on your own (in case having doubt running something suspicious from me). This is my step doing it:

• Download from latest release https://github.com/chrizneko/acroreadsuse15/releases/latest and extract it, copy the content to /home/user/acroreadsuse/
• Download adobe reader source from http://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.tar.bz2 and extract it
• Copy the COMMON.TAR and ILINXR.TAR in the adobe reader source directory to /home/user/acroreadsuse/
• Cd to the that directory (/home/user/acroreadsuse)
• Run this: bash -ex pkg2appimageacroread acroread.yml
• Your appimage will be in the folder /home/user/acroreadsuse/out Note: if you need to change the directory, change the acroread.yml on the line contains "/home/user/acroreadsuse/" into your liking

Extra notes

• I commented the "delete_blacklisted" line on a regular pkg2appimage bash script, therefore I included it in this repo the pkg2appimage bash script that I changed. So that appimage won't delete the basic library acroread needed when compiling
• Copied libraries that needed by acroread from OpenSuSE Leap 42.3
• Changed the acroread bash script line 50 and line 560 so the program will use the correct library directory and file (see https://gist.github.com/cho2/79964a49a4f5f545853d3ebdfd1efe73#gistcomment-2932886)

TODO

• Integrate missing libraries and fix wrong libraries loaded, so the prerequisite above can be removed