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I have been trying to install manually Adobe Reader 9 mutiple times on Ubuntu 20.04.4, but the app does not start. When I type in a terminal

acroread some_file.pdf

I get the following output but nothing more. No errors, no warnings, and under ps -ef there is no job named acroread.

How can I try to fix this problem?

Here is the complete but meaningless output:

(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.691: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.691: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.692: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.692: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.693: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.694: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",


(acroread:17581): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:35:23.695: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

I tried to install

sudo apt install gtk2-engines-pixbuf

but it seems it was already installed, and did not change anything.

Alex
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  • Is there a reason to use such old software? Is there something wrong/missing with the default native PDF reader or the other dozen or so? – ChanganAuto Mar 11 '22 at 13:35
  • Have you tried to run evince? It has been working way better than acroread for several years now... – Alexis Wilke Mar 11 '22 at 15:05
  • Yes ok, I will use evince. I was not aware that adobe abandoned Linux. – Alex Mar 12 '22 at 08:39
  • ChanganAuto yes https://askubuntu.com/questions/471561/how-to-view-3d-pdf-files i cannot post a comment – eased Nov 10 '22 at 10:10
  • @ChanganAuto Only Acro reader supports session restore, a feature dearly missed on all these crappy PDF readers on Linux – Parham Dec 06 '23 at 12:38

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