Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader on Debian (10) Buster

Adobe Acrobat Reader is used to read/open PDF files, but wait debian buster already have Document Viewer to open PDF files then why do we need Acrobat Reader. None of the PDF viewer except Acrobat Reader in Linux is providing feature to validate signature, which we need sometimes to validate PDF documents. Just downloading AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb does not let you install Acrobat Reader directly on Debian Buster then how to do this?

Step : 1
First we require to add the i386 architecture using terminal command :

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

Step : 2
Add library libxml2:i386 :

sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386

Step : 3
Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) deb package here:

step : 4
Go to Downloads Folder and Install the deb package using terminal as follows :

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

Terminal will through some error(s) but just avoid them and follow next step.

step : 5
Install the various dependencies require by the package (acroread) using following command.

sudo apt-get -f install

You are all set! Launch the Adobe Acrobat Reader from the terminal by :

acroread

Author: Suthar Naveen P

A Linux enthusiast. Full Stack Web Developer and Graphic Designer works on Debian Linux. Founder of 'Naveen Web Solutions' and contributor at Shutterstock.

2 thoughts on “Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader on Debian (10) Buster”

  1. In Debian 11 I have the error:

    /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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