Install Acroread

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HOW TO INSTALL ACROREAD on Linux

Download and save the rpm from the adobe website here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ Move the rpm file to /etc/yum.repos.d/

Then yum install all of these:

PackageKit-gtk-module-0.5.8-21.el6.i686 
libcanberra-gtk2-0.22-1.el6.centos.i686 
atk-1.28.0-2.el6.i686
fontconfig-2.8.0-3.el6.i686
gtk2-2.18.9-12.el6.i686
libidn-1.18-2.el6.i686 
libxml2-2.7.6-12.el6_4.1.i686 
libXt-1.1.3-1.el6.i686
nspluginwrapper.i686
gtk2-engines.i686
libcanberra-gtk2.i686
nscd

Then

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

yum install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm

service nscd start

Then type acroread on the command line and you should be good to go.