PDF Viewer available for Debian "squeeze"?

[RABIS50]

Hi,
my son learns programming with Scratch and the manuals are PDF documents. Is there a way to view this documents with the Debian "squeeze" distribution?

Thanks for our help!
Rabis50

[mdewey]

Try going

xpdf yourfilename.pdf

and see what happens

Michael

[rasbeer]

I think it comes with evince too.

So might also be worth trying
evince yourfilename.pdf

(making sure the working directory is where the file is).

[dhardingham]

For anyone that finds Debian a little difficult, the command to install the PDF reader is:

sudo apt-get install xpdf

This is well worth installing.

[RABIS50]

Thanks David,

yes, xpdf and evince are not installed.
I will be try it tomorrow.

RABIS50

[ropesh305]

hi..i am not able to install neither xpdf or evince.While installing it tries to connect to internet for fetching some missing packages. Is it compulsory to connect to internet first? I have no net net access thats the problem.Is there any ways to do it? plz help.

[Stephen||Carter]

At present the xpdf reader does not install.

sudo apt-get install xpdf

works but during the install process a 404 error is encountered when attempting to find the package at http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/... etc etc.

Don't even know who to contact about getting this back up and running.

Might be an issue with the Australian mirror only.

[Stephen||Carter]

had to run
sudo apt-get update
first to update the local package index with the latest changes made in repositories.

Live and learn.