Adobe Reader 9.1 for Solaris and OpenSolaris x86.
Get in now
http://www.adobe.com/go/getreader
to install run as root on Solaris or do pfexec on OpenSolaris:
$ chmod +x AdbeRdr9.1.0-1_i486solaris_enu.bin
$ pfexec ./AdbeRdr9.1.0-1_i486solaris_enu.bin
Extracting files, please wait. (This may take a while depending on the configuration of your machine)
This installation requires 171 MB of free disk space.
Enter installation directory for Adobe Reader 9.1.0 [/opt]
/opt
Installing platform independent files ... Done
Installing platform dependent files ... Done
Setting up libraries ... Done
Setting up desktop and menu icons ... Done
Setting up the browser plugin ... Done
And you will get it on the system as well as Firefox plugin.
Thank you for this article! easy going! I love solaris! Which performance/process monitors do you use in the menu bar?
Posted by Philipp Speck on July 20, 2009 at 02:38 AM PDT #
Thanks, Philipp.
This is System Monitor applet. By default it shows just a couple graphs. But you can ask it to give more.
Posted by Roman Ivanov on July 20, 2009 at 09:41 PM PDT #
It's great to use Adobe Reader on OpenSolaris. Because Evince is not such a good one. Actually it can not open the file if there is more than 1000 pages. Anyway Spasibo Brat! ;)
Posted by Yigit Ozdamar on July 30, 2009 at 11:14 PM PDT #
Thanks for the blog. Couple of months back I installed Solaris 10 on my laptop and also install Adobe reader (download in .pkg.bz2 format) which worked fine. But due to driver problem for my Ethernet card, I uninstall Solaris 10 & install OpenSolaris 2009.06
Now my question is Can I install the same download of adobe reader in Opensolaris? If yes, is there any difference in the process than what I opted for Solaris 10?
Posted by Parag Chatterjee on November 24, 2009 at 01:46 AM PST #
Hi Parag,
I never tried to install Adobe Reader on Solaris 10.
But packages on the download page are not differentiated by Solaris version.
So I think that installation process of Adobe Reader should be the same on OpenSolaris and Solaris 10.
pkg format is still supported by OpenSolaris.
Posted by Roman Ivanov on November 24, 2009 at 02:05 AM PST #
Thanks a lot for the help. Actually I opt for Adobe reader on Opensolaris because I could not open my OpenSolaris bible ebook (pdf format) using Evince although some other pdf ebooks are opened by it without any hitch.
Anyway, thanks once again.
Posted by Parag Chatterjee on November 24, 2009 at 03:12 AM PST #
Hi,
I just want to say thank you once again because I am able to successfully install Adobe Reader in OpenSolaris using .pkg.bz2 file as I earlier did in Solaris 10.
Posted by Parag Chatterjee on November 26, 2009 at 01:11 AM PST #