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I am using acrobat reader 9 and I notice that this version is from 2013! I am wondering how I can get the LATEST version of acrobat reader in Ubuntu 20.04

jdev082
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    Adobe no longer supports Acrobat Reader for Linux. The latest native Linux version is 9.5.5 dated from 26/04/2013, as you correctly stated in your question. Maybe, the only chance to use a newer version is installaing the Windows version through Wine, but this is beyond my knowledge. – Lorenz Keel Aug 01 '20 at 19:52
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    Do you need it for something special, quite a few readers for linux, Ubuntu has one already installed and most main browsers have ability to read also now. – crip659 Aug 01 '20 at 20:22

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You have already know about native 9.5.5 which is old.

The other option is to install Acrobat Reader using Wine. Also we know that it fails to access files from /tmp while using acrordrdc snap package.

So we need to install it manually using Wine and PlayOnLinux. Below is how:

  1. Install PlayOnLinux

    sudo apt-get install playonlinux

  2. Launch PlayOnLinux

  3. Click Install, enter acrobat into the search field

  4. Select Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for installation

  5. Proceed with one of the following:

  6. Wait wizard to finish.

  7. To get all fonts and remove visual artifacts save the code below to some file - for example ~/Downloads/acrordrc2020.pol with contents below

    #!/usr/bin/env playonlinux-bash

[ "$PLAYONLINUX" = "" ] && exit 0
source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources"

TITLE="Adobe Acrobat Reader DC"
PREFIX="AdobeAcrobatReaderDC"
WINEVERSION="4.0.3"
EDITOR="Adobe Systems Inc."
GAME_URL="https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/products/pdf-reader.html"
AUTHOR="Martins Bruvelis, N0rbert (to support ARDC 2020)"

POL_SetupWindow_Init
POL_Debug_Init

POL_SetupWindow_presentation "$TITLE" "$EDITOR" "$GAME_URL" "$AUTHOR" "$PREFIX"

# select prefix
POL_System_TmpCreate "$PREFIX"
POL_Wine_SelectPrefix "$PREFIX"

# setup prefix
POL_Wine_InstallFonts
POL_Call POL_Install_atmlib
POL_Call POL_Install_corefonts
#POL_Call POL_Install_allfonts
POL_Call POL_Install_wsh57
POL_Call POL_Install_mspatcha
POL_Call POL_Install_riched30
POL_Call POL_Install_riched20
POL_Call POL_Install_gdiplus
POL_Call POL_Install_FontsSmoothRGB
POL_Call POL_Install_d3dx11
POL_Call POL_Install_d3dx10
POL_Call POL_Install_directx9

POL_Wine_WaitBefore "$TITLE"
POL_Wine_WaitExit "$TITLE"

POL_SetupWindow_Close
exit

  8. In the PlayOnLinux window select Tools → Run a local script and specify path to it (~/Downloads/acrordrc2020.pol), confirm its execution and wait it to finish.

  9. Set file association for PDF file with Acrobat in PlayOnLinux by choosing Settings → File Associations, then click New, enter .pdf and associate it with Acrobat in the bottom of window.

  10. Open file manager, select PDF file and use Open With to get it opened using newly installed Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

  11. Enjoy:

    ARDC2020

N0rbert
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    Its sad i'll have to use wine/playonlinux to install the latest version! I really hope Windows/MAC OS developers start developing there apps for the linux platform! – jdev082 Aug 01 '20 at 21:57
  • in step 9 I had to enter `.pdf` to see the extension in the list – Rich Steinmetz Nov 29 '20 at 09:44
  • thanks for the writeup, but in the end, the whole thing is somewhat shaky and I'm not able to use certain features at all (e.g. clicking on Sign & Fill it always crashes) – Rich Steinmetz Nov 29 '20 at 09:46
  • Note that to for annotations to work properly, I needed to [install the Segoe fonts](https://askubuntu.com/a/1314105/145802). – Wrzlprmft Feb 06 '21 at 12:00
  • Made my day.. 1G of open source (no ads) executables.. Lighter than winapp as KVM (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps) – CodeFarmer Mar 11 '21 at 00:06
  • Any idea how to get Adobe Reader to recognize the printer on Ubuntu? – Steve3p0 Dec 24 '21 at 05:50
  • I press Ctrl+P and it shows all my printers which were previously added to system. – N0rbert Dec 24 '21 at 07:23
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might try :

:~$ sudo snap install acrordrdc
:~$ acrordrdc

Source : How to Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (WINE) on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux

Rγσ ξηg Lιαη Ημ 雷欧
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    If the Acrobat Reader DC installation through snap is failing. It means your system snap/snapd is not functioning properly. and since snap/snapd is highly dependent on systemd & Openssh-client implementation. you may need to look into those issues and resolve them before fixing your snap environment. – Twrcha May 27 '21 at 11:54
  • how to configure it? used `playonlinux` doesn't work, `crossover` work but chargable (not free) – Rγσ ξηg Lιαη Ημ 雷欧 May 28 '21 at 08:42
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You already have the latest version. There is no newer one. Adobe stopped supporting Linux many, many years ago.

Jörg W Mittag
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