[SOLVED] 32-bit libraries for acroread on 64-bit system?

[magfan]

I need the Adobe reader (acroread) on my Mageia 3 64-bit system. From Adobe I could get only a 32-bit version for Linux (acroread 9.4.2) and I installed it. But there seem to be several 32-bit dependencies which are not satisfied on my system. How can I find out which additional libraries I need to install?

[doktor5000]

Did you install it via urpmi? Otherwise do an ldd on the binary and look for the missing libraries, you can feed the library filenames directly to urpmi:

-p Allow search in provides to find the package (this is the default).

[magfan]

The problem was that several 32-bit libraries had not been updated during the upgrade process mga2 -> mga3. Calling "urpmi --auto-update --auto-select" did not help because the system thought it was already completely updated. So I looked for libraries linked with "acroread" and manually uninstalled a random selection of those libraries before I called "urpmi --auto-update --auto-select" again. Now the system was able to update all libraries with dependencies. And finally acroread is working.

[doktor5000]

I called "urpmi --auto-update --auto-select" again.

FWIW, --auto-select is only a subset of --auto-update, useless to combine both