
Yes there is, but the support has been dropped. I might add instructions for that later (seems unlikely given that I wrote that over two years ago!). You can drag the desktop file into the Launcher to get a button there, you can also add an icon for it in the Ubuntu Dash using alacarte ('Main Menu'). You'll need to open PlayOnLinux to run Adobe Reader DC each time (note that you can have this installed alongside Adobe Reader 9.5.5).


Install PlayOnLinux (as of 22 December 2018 you must get it this way, and not through Ubuntu Software, to ensure that you have the Wine version required to install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC).For Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (running with Wine) You can, however, get a newer version using the process below (this installs a Windows version of Adobe Reader on Ubuntu). This is, of course, a very outdated version of Adobe Reader, but this is not Ubuntu's fault, Adobe haven't updated the Linux client of Adobe Reader. If it still doesn't work, try sudo apt install libxml2:i386.

If you can't find/run Adobe Reader, you will need to run sudo apt -f install to resolve dependencies. There's less of a chance you'll ruin your system if you get it this way.

For Adobe Reader 9.5.5 (running natively without Wine)ĭon't add the Ubuntu 12.04 Partner repository, you're not really supposed to add repositories from previous Ubuntu versions! Get the Deb from here ( source - it's also linked in the question), no it won't be automatically updated but since it's no longer supported (and Ubuntu can't patch security vulnerabilities for it in Ubuntu 12.04 anyway because it's proprietary) that doesn't matter.
