Fix AdobeReader on Fedora Core 6

I recently upgraded from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6 on my laptop. It was one of the easiest in place upgrades I've ever done. However, I did experience a glitch with Adobe Acrobat Reader (AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1).

When running from the command line, I got this error in an endless loop:

jmcnair@laptop.mcnair.org:0 $ acroread
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
...

I found the solution in this forum:
FULL Fedora Core 6 Probs - LinuxQuestions.org

In that forum, there is a link to this small patch.

To apply the patch, become root and then:

cd
wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch
cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin
cp -a acroread acroread.orig
patch -p0 < ~/acroread.patch

You should see this output:

patching file acroread

You should then be able to run 'acroread' from the command line with no errors.