Monday, April 25, 2011

Adobe Acrobat Reader on 64bit Linux

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 Adobe has released 64 bit version of Acrobat Reader for Linux

To install in ubuntu,open terminal and type

sudo apt-get install acroread

Or Visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html
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Adobe has not released 64bit Acrobat reader for Linux and its not possible to install 32bit acrobat reader without doing some tweaks on 64bit Linux.  so solution is to install i486 version of Acrobat reader.

Its Available for download at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4454&fileID=4162

After you download the AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin file
open terminal and cd to the directory where you have saved the installation file

Now type sudo chmod a+x AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin

And Then type sudo ./AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin

This should install Acrobat reader on your 64bit Linux Os

For other Versions of Acrobat reader for Linux And Solaris

Visit
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Fix FlashPlayer Problem in Mozilla Firefox (Linux Os)

I used to face this problem in many websites which has video steaming, even thought youtube videos used to play properly in mozilla firefox (Linux OS) , while i play videos in Lockerz the videos were not playing properly , so after bit research i found this cool addon for firefox call Flash-Aid, after i installed this addon the flash player problem was fixed in Lockerz and other websites .

To install this addon in Firefox, click Tools -> Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A)
and search for flash-aid add-on else
visit
http://www.webgapps.org/downloads/addons-firefox?download=6%3Aflash-aid-add-on-for-firefox

and install the add-on manually

after successful installation you will find Flash-Aid icon on right most top corner of firefox

Just click on that icon and new window will pop open
Select the Installation Options Tab
And in the version and source , select the version of flash player suitable for your system, the flash-aid will automically select the best version for your system by default.

Then select the script preview tab and click on Execute Button

Now a Terminal(Konsole) windows will open and it will ask for root password
after you have entered the password, it will download the flashplayer and install and will ask you to restart Firefox

This should Fix Flash player problem in Mozilla Firefox.

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