[Discuss] Installing software not in repositories -- Kubuntu 7.04

[David Bronaugh]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> For example, I want to install Acroread (preferably latest version), but
>> when I search for it on the repositories, it does not seem to be there.
>> I am sure I could go to the Adobe site, download and install it that
>> way, but I am not sure if that is the best approach with Kubuntu or not.
>
> Out of curiosity what is better about acroread than KPDF (KDE) or
> evince (GNOME)?
>
> Cheers,
> Lloyd
I'll tell you what's wrong with evince and acroread - they both honour 
Adobe's stupid password protection. xpdf does not. So xpdf got the job 
of converting a PDF someone had stupidly password protected to 
postscript for a friend so that he could print it.

David