Will there be an acroread 9.2 package hardy amd64?

You can install ia32-libs which will enable you to run 32bit packages:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

You can then install acrobat reader from the site using either the deb or run file:

cd ~; wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.2/enu/AdbeRdr9.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./AdbeRdr9.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb; sudo apt-get -f install; rm ./AdbeRdr9.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb

Done

Thank you, good instructions.

However, there are a quite a lot of these computers, and we need to manage their packages automatically. So a real amd64 package (depending on ia32-libs if needed) would be what we hope for. If one is planned, we'll be happy to wait a while, but if not, we'll have to think of some other solution.

you can use evince, it will open PDFs just fine and is part of a standard ubuntu install.

I just got it from https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/melo
add the repo and run:

sudo apt-get install acroread

done

Thanks, but this is an earlier version, with the vulnerabilities in http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html .

Medibuntu used to have 9.1.0-7hardy2+medibuntu2 for amd64. I'm just wondering whether 9.2 will also appear.

And yes, I'm using evince - it's the "end users" used to Adobe Reader that I'm caring about.

OK, so I reckon an amd64 package is not planned. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.