Hi

I really don't know what upgrade on my pclinuxos (later I found this is a common issue on many linux distros) caused the issue with my adobe acrobat reader. This error may eventually crashes mozilla-firefox (may because of acrobat reader integration with firefox). Following is the fix.

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# which acroread
/usr/bin/acroread
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# vi /usr/bin/acroread

Go to line 417,
echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

In this line, after second [0-9] add a "*". ( ie, [0-9]* ).

The final output look like the following.

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

Hope this information helps you.

Thanks

Anil

4 Responses to “expr: syntax error - adobe acrobat reader (acroread) and mozilla firefox (mozilla-firefox)”

  1. Terry Says:

    Thanks. Same distro, same problem, same fix. As you say, it’s not limited to one distro but it could be related to Synaptic.

  2. anil Says:

    No problem, Terry.

  3. Peyre Says:

    Didn’t work for me. Still in the syntax loop when I try to execute the command acroread. Firefox plugin also does not work. Using PCOSLinix and KDE

  4. Poulghet Says:

    Valeu

    mais aqui na minha configuracao a linha era 381, mais blz deu certo.

    um forte abraco.

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