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If you downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 from Adobe. You will find that when you launch Adobe Reader no window will appear. You may notice the Adobe Reader start up script acroread in your process list. If you run Adobe Reader from the terminal you will see "expr: Syntax error" repeated endlessly. This can be fixed by replacing

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

with

echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

. As found on the Ubuntu Forums.