Re: acroread has stopped working for me...

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:34:11 -0400, "Steven M. Bellovin"
<smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:06:56 +0200, Thomas Klausner 
> <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > > Yesterday, I reinstalled all out-of-date packages, from pkgsrc HEAD.  I
> > > > can no longer run acroread7:
> > > > 
> > > >         GTK+ UI Toolkit libraries, ver. 2.4 or greater were not found.
> > > > 
> > > > suse_gtk2-9.1nb5    Linux compatibility package for GTK2 binaries
> > > 
> > > head /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/share/doc/packages/gtk2/README:
> > > 
> > > This is GTK+ version 2.2.4. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > The acroread7 package was updated on the 9th. I guess the new one wants
> > > gtk 2.4 now.
> > 
> > Could you try with the suse_gtk2-10* packages?
> 
> I'll give it a try.

It seems to work -- but I had to install suse100_compat manually.  Without
that, acroread exited silently.  That in itself is grounds for a PR, I
guess, but I'm not certain which package should depend on it.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb