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

[Murray Strome]

David Bronaugh wrote:
> 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
A very good point!!!!!