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Install Adobe Reader on openSUSE Leap 15.0. Adobe Reader is no longer supported by Adobe on Linux and accordingly it can no longer be supported by openSUSE. Using an outdated Adobe Reader version is a security risk. (https://en.opensuse.org/Adobe_Reader)
$ sudo zypper in libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libcanberra-gtk0-32bit libcanberra-gtk2-module-32bit libcanberra-gtk3-module-32bit libcanberra-gtk3-0-32bit firefox
$ wget ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin
$ chmod u+x AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin
$ sudo ./AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin
$ cd /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin
$ sudo nano acroread
### Fixed with https://gist.github.com/bohoomil/1439487/e013835b03eedf49a6bbb1bc6bad3beb78bc00e7 (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574580#c0 for details)
$ acroread
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Many thanks! This really helped me.

For people out there that maybe as clueless as me, I created the appimage out from here to simplify the works needed (Even though it is still a sloppy work). Details on https://github.com/chrizneko/acroreadsuse15

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cho2 commented Apr 20, 2023

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