My new upgraded Acrobat Reader for Linux had one minor flaw... every single time it opened it asked me to accept the license agreement. I've heard of wanting to confirm, but that's just downright pesky!

Quick fix: delete the .adobe directory from your home directory like so:

rm -R -f ~/.adobe

Then, run Acrobat Reader, accept the license and it should remember that you've done it.

Some time ago I installed the official version 9.1 of Acrobat reader on my 64-bit Ubuntu desktop. If I remember correctly I had downloaded the distro-independent installer from Acrobat's website.

A few months ago an update to Firefox caused it to crash if Firefox were open at the same time. It took me a while to realize that was what caused it. At first I just realized that if I ever tried to open a PDF file from a web page it crashed, but other times it worked fine. Finally I realized the other times were any time that Firefox wasn't open.

A bit of Googling led me to a few threads about a known issue with Adobe 9 that caused this. Well, kudos to the Adobe guys because they listened, found and fixed the problem. Adobe 9.1.2 fixes the problem.

Since I'm running a 64 bit OS and Adobe only releases 32 bit Linux versions, I had to force the install of the Debian package by doing:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all AdbeRdr*

Now, no more crashes with PDF's. Yes, I know I could use eVince in Linux to natively display PDF files, but I've found a few display bugs with more complex PDF's and when Adobe is kind enough to produce a Linux version, I might as well use it.