AIX 6.1 and Acrobat Reader
Basil Holloway
attempted installation got
" The chosen configuration will not run on your current platform ( AIX/6.1 )
. "
I am running AIX 6100-02-02-849.
Got onto Acrobat support and they advise
" Adobe Reader 7.0.9 supported AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. Incidentally, Adobe
does not support AIX platform anymore. "
Any other solutions ?
Thanks
David J Dachtera
Indeed. At a time when AIX is seeing a rise in popularity, especially in
healthcare where the ISVs are abandoning VMS due to HP's major faux pas,
this seems rather ill advised on Adobe's part.
What other .PDF readers might one use on AIX?
D.J.D.
Thomas Braunbeck
> Downloaded AdbeRd709-aix-enutar.gz from the Acrobat FTP site and on an
> attempted installation got
> " The chosen configuration will not run on your current platform ( AIX/6.1 )
> . "
>
> I am running AIX 6100-02-02-849.
>
The Acrobat Reader should be a user level program (no device drivers or
kernel modules) and as the 5.3 version should run on 6.1 as well.
Try to find where the message comes from. If you are lucky, then an
install script is the source. And here you'll most likely will find
some type of OS level test.... change this test, so your 6.1 level
passed the test and retry the install.
I remember, I had such an issue in the past (5.x) and got around this
by just doing the above.
Frank Fegert
> [...]
>
> What other .PDF readers might one use on AIX?
xpdf? (www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
Best regards,
Frank
Michael Kraemer
given the reported security problems of Adobe's reader
this is not necessarily a bad thing.
> What other .PDF readers might one use on AIX?
xpdf has been mentioned, ghostscript comes to mind also.
Basil Holloway
Thanks
Basil
Basil Holloway
needed libttf.a(libttf.so.2).
Down loaded off IBM libttf version 3.8.2 and installed it.
Re-previewed xpdf in smit and it was still saying it needed
libttf.a(libttf.so.2).
Previewed in smit the uninstall of libtiff-3.8.2-1 and it said gtk2 needed
it so left it installed.
Abandoned xpdf.
Did a preview in smit of ghostscript off AIX 6.1 Toolbox cd and it said all
okay with no need for
any dependencies.
Went ahead and installed it but I cannot find out how to activate the
program.
#find / -name ghostscript
#find / -name ghost
#find / -name script
only returned find: 0652-023 cannot open file /proc/26868.
Read on web to try #mount and retry the find command. Still same errors.
Further web reading
#find . -print -fstype jfs2 | grep etc | grep ghostscript
#find . -print -fstype jfs2 | grep etc | grep ghost
#find . -print -fstype jfs2 | grep etc | grep script
eliminated the /proc errors but I could not locate where ghostscript is
installed on the system.
Looked in smit.log, smit.script for clues but only found GhostScript 5.5
mentioned in the smit.log where I installed it. GhostScript 5.5 does not
turn up on the list of programs installed or to uninstall in smit.
Installed ghostscript6 fonts and it shows up on the list of programs to
uninstall in smit.
Re installed ghostscript again in smit. Said it went okay, the guy had his
arms up but still cannot find it.
Incidently smit never told me it was already installed.
Re installed it again using #wsm and #geninstall with the same non success.
Tried to find its path using the two methods shown in the linux redbooks
with no success.
smit, wsm and geninstall say it was installed but I do not think it is.
Although I am trying to install ghostscript to be used to read .pdf files as
Acrobat Reader is unavailble now for AIX 6, why do the fonts install first
go, but the main program refuses to install.
Am using the AIX 6 Linux Toolbox cd but its release notes all were made up
using AIX 5L.
Could this be the reason ?
Thanks
Thomas, did not try your method as it is way beyond my AIX expertise.
Frank Fegert
> Did a preview in smit of xpdf off the AIX 6.1 toolbox cd and it advised it
> needed libttf.a(libttf.so.2).
> Down loaded off IBM libttf version 3.8.2 and installed it.
> Re-previewed xpdf in smit and it was still saying it needed
> libttf.a(libttf.so.2).
> Previewed in smit the uninstall of libtiff-3.8.2-1 and it said gtk2 needed
> it so left it installed.
> Abandoned xpdf.
Odd, didn't the Linux Toolbox for AIX 6.1 come as RPMs anymore? Check
if you can run 'rpm -qa'. If so, a 'rpm -ql gv' should give you the
location of the gv tool which can be used to view PDFs. You could also
try to go with xpdf again and check if the libttf.a really needs a full
GTK2 install. Install the libtiff RPM with 'rpm --nodeps -i <RPM-file>',
run ldd against the libtiff and check for missing libraries.
Best regards,
Frank
Basil Holloway
> if you can run 'rpm -qa'. If so, a 'rpm -ql gv' should give you the
> location of the gv tool which can be used to view PDFs. You could also
> try to go with xpdf again and check if the libttf.a really needs a full
> GTK2 install. Install the libtiff RPM with 'rpm --nodeps -i <RPM-file>',
> run ldd against the libtiff and check for missing libraries.
> Best regards,
> Frank
Frank thanks for your reply. Unfortunalely I kind of went round in circles.
#rpm -qa shows about 20 files installed including ghostscript fonts,
gtk2-2.8.3-9 and libtiff-3.8.2-1
I uninstalled the ghostscripts fonts so now there is no GhostScript on the
computer.
#rpm -ql gv said gv package not installed.
#rpm --nodeps -i xpdf-1.00-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm off the /dvd0/RPMS/ppc (6.1
toolbox cd ) went okay.
#xpdf gave error messages cannot load xpdf dependent module
/usr/lib/libtiff.a(libtiff.so.2) could not be loaded member libtiff.so.2
could not be found in archtive.
#rpm --nodeps -i libtiff_.rpm says package libtiff-3.8.2-1 is already
loaded.
Tried a preview uninstall of libtiff-3.8.2-1 in smit and got
removing this package would break dependencies
libtiff is needed by gtk2-2.8.3-9
libtiff.a(shr.o) is needed by gtk2-2.8.3-9
Tried to find a copy of libtiff.so.2 on the web to dump into /usr/lib but
had no luck.
#cd /usr/lib
#ldd libtiff.a says file is an archive
How do I get libtiff.so.2 into /usr/lib which xpdf wants.
Thanks
Frank Fegert
> [...]
This is getting pretty mixed up, so lets start over ;-)
The gv RPM package contains gv/ghostview which can be used to view
PDFs. I checked the IBM AIX Toolbox web page, gv is listed there.
Maybe it is just not on the 6.1 Toolbox CD/DVD, please check that.
If you want to use gv, install the RPM and IMHO don't bother using
smitty, just go with the rpm command line.
The problem with the xpdf package is that xpdf from the AIX Toolbox
is depending on the libtiff.so.2, which on AIX is a member of the
libtiff.a archive. You will see that variant of library handling a
lot on AIX and it's one of the things that makes AIX a bit different
from other Unix or Linux variants you might know. Run 'dump -Hv
/usr/lib/libtiff.a' and you'll see what libraries are part of the
libtiff archive. You'll see that the libtiff.so.2 needed by xpdf is
missing, but that a libtiff.so.3 is present. This is a very fine
example of what happens when a vendor is basically run by the legal
department (also see the aixtoolbox-list on SourceForge for various
references towards a crippling internal approval process) - the good
ideas and hard work goes south :-( To solve your problem i'd suggest
forgetting most of the AIX Toolbox, since it's heavily outdated and
use one of the following alternatives:
- http://www.perzl.org (RPM style packages, what's not there get from IBM)
- http://pware.hvcc.edu (AIX native packages)
- Build what you need from scratch.
Best regards,
Frank
Basil Holloway
"Frank Fegert" <fra.no...@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Thanks Frank for the trouble you went to with your replies.
However it just got to involved with gv on perzl.org requiring two
dependencies which in
turn required another 6 dependencies including ghostscript.
Set up an XP machine with Acrobat 8 next to my AIX 6.1 machine solved the
problem.
Regards
Basil