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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?

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:

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

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.

magfan wrote:I called "urpmi --auto-update --auto-select" again.

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