Adobe Reader Broken After Salamander Upgrade

[Shadeclan]

My GTK 2 apps (vim and firefox)xsa are producing lots of warnings like this in Saucy, but only if they've been built since the saucy release.

Regards, John Little

John,

This particular release of Adobe Reader has been around awhile. I first installed this version in early summer for my son's Eagle Scout papers and I think it was old then. Current Reader version for Linux is in the nines. Windows version is eleven or twelve - I really can't remember now. Anyway, the point is that this release was built long before Saucy came out.

[jlittle]

BTW: I did get a warning message:

 Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk"

My GTK 2 apps (vim and firefox)xsa are producing lots of warnings like this in Saucy, but only if they've been built since the saucy release.

Regards, John Little

[Shadeclan]

OK. Found one post that recommended to install the package "gtk2-engines-pixbuf". I installed that package and, because it was recommended and because Adobe Reader is a 32 bit program, I also installed "gtk2-engines-pixbuf:386" That did not help.

Found another post that suggested that the warning was due to Adobe being a piece of garbage:

To demonstrate:$ acroread

(acroread:25643): Gtk-WARNING **: Methu canfod peiriant thema yn module_path: "oxygen-gtk",

and acroread runs fine. (Well, as fine as it ever does.) Sorry about the language. I forgot to tell it to use English. It means just what you're seeing, though. It does not cause acroread not to launch or work. The important error is the segmentation one. I doubt the gtk error has anything to do with it. Note that it is a Warning and that is not the same as an error.

And yes, I know you say what application you are using in your post but I would suggest putting it in your subject line. You want people who know that application to read your thread as they are the ones most likely to be able to help.

Of course, it is your thread and so up to you. But your current subject line says you are seeing a common and harmless error from some application or other. That's all.

Perhaps it just doesn't matter and Reader is not going to run any better.

[Shadeclan]

try this (for your GTK appearance probs) ,,,,, create a file with kate(if it dose not exist) in your /home/you called .gtkrc-2.0 with the contents
save and close kate maby log out and in or restart ,,,,,now do your gtk programs look better ?

VINNY

Sorry I took so long to get back to you.

The file is there. It has the contents you mention along with a few other things. This doesn't appear to be the problem.

[vinnywright]

Hey! That worked! Thanks!

I also installed the "suggested" packages along with this one.

BTW: I did get a warning message:

 Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk"

I am using the Oxygen theme in my GTK settings. I'm wondering if I've had this particular problem all along and if it explains the interface problems I've been having.

try this (for your GTK appearance probs) ,,,,, create a file with kate(if it dose not exist) in your /home/you called .gtkrc-2.0 with the contents

include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

gtk-theme-name="oxygen-gtk"

save and close kate maby log out and in or restart ,,,,,now do your gtk programs look better ?

VINNY

[Shadeclan]

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0[B]:i386[/B]

Hey! That worked! Thanks!

I also installed the "suggested" packages along with this one.

BTW: I did get a warning message:

 Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk"

I am using the Oxygen theme in my GTK settings. I'm wondering if I've had this particular problem all along and if it explains the interface problems I've been having.

[claydoh]

Do you have the libgtk-x11 package installed, the 32 bit one?

I had done a search for the libgtk-x11 package previously and thought I'd try again at your suggestion. I did an apt-cache search for this package and found nothing. Apt-cache install cannot find this package. A search on gtk-x11, came up with a single package: scim-gtk-immodule, which I installed. It made no difference, so I uninstalled it again. Is there another package which includes or is an upgrade to this one?

oops, my bad! how about the package libgtk2.0, which is the one that contains the file acroread can't find: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0[B]:i386[/B]

My only other suggestion is to uninstall the acroread you have already, then download and install the 32bit acroread package directly from adobe, and install that (just double click the deb file)

[Shadeclan]

Add the Ubuntu 'partner' repository ... Update the package cache ... Get Adobe Reader ... Install

I tried adding the repository (copied and pasted the line you gave me). It ran without error - in fact, it ran without any sort of message at all. I then tried running the add-apt-repository with the -s option. On apt-get update, it seemed to find a new repository but nothing updated with either apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get upgrade. Adobe Reader still fails with the same error.

FYI: Already have Adobe Reader 9.5.5 installed.

And, I'm still getting this from my apt-cache search:

apt-cache search libgtk2.0
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-doc - GDK Pixbuf library (documentation)
libgtk2.0-0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-0-dbg - GTK+ libraries and debugging symbols
libgtk2.0-bin - programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-cil - CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.12
libgtk2.0-cil-dev - CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.12
libgtk2.0-common - common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-dev - development files for the GTK+ library
libgtk2.0-doc - documentation for the GTK+ graphical user interface library

[Snowhog]

Add the Ubuntu 'partner' repository:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"

Update the package cache:

sudo apt-get update

Get Adobe Reader from Adobe at:

http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Once download is complete, click the Next button on the Adobe site page. This will install Reader 9.5.5 (English) for Linux (.deb).

[Shadeclan]

Check to see if libgtk2.0-0 and/or libgtk2.0-0 (i386) are installed, as those are the packages that contain libgtk-x11.

Libgtk2.0-0 is installed. I can't find a i386 version:

apt-cache search libgtk2.0
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-doc - GDK Pixbuf library (documentation)
libgtk2.0-0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-0-dbg - GTK+ libraries and debugging symbols
libgtk2.0-bin - programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-cil - CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.12
libgtk2.0-cil-dev - CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.12
libgtk2.0-common - common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
libgtk2.0-dev - development files for the GTK+ library
libgtk2.0-doc - documentation for the GTK+ graphical user interface library

[Snowhog]

Check to see if libgtk2.0-0 and/or libgtk2.0-0 (i386) are installed, as those are the packages that contain libgtk-x11.

[Shadeclan]

Do you have the libgtk-x11 package installed, the 32 bit one?

I had done a search for the libgtk-x11 package previously and thought I'd try again at your suggestion. I did an apt-cache search for this package and found nothing. Apt-cache install cannot find this package. A search on gtk-x11, came up with a single package: scim-gtk-immodule, which I installed. It made no difference, so I uninstalled it again. Is there another package which includes or is an upgrade to this one?

[claydoh]

Do you have the libgtk-x11 package installed, the 32 bit one?

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[Shadeclan]

See my post #13

here

Checked it out. Did an apt-get on the packages. Copied and pasted the apt-get line from your post:

sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 lib32stdc++6

This was the message I got back:

lib32stdc++6 is already the newest version.
libxml2:i386 is already the newest version.

The error message when starting Reader is still present:

acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have all the replacement ia32-libs packages installed - lib32z1, lib32ncurses5, and lib32bz2-1.0. If there is a problem there, it's probably some legacy package not included in the upgrades for Saucy.

[weha]

See my post #13

here