Installing Adobe Reader on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Adobe stopped Adobe Reader support for Linux so it is bit of a challenge to find and install the Adobe Reader for Linux. Here I describe how to install it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Step 1. First install gdebi

sudo apt-get install gdebi

Step 2. Install required libraries

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386
sudo apt-get install libnss3-1d:i386
sudo apt-get install libnspr4-0d:i386
sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386
sudo apt-get install libxslt1.1:i386

Step 3. Download the Adobe Reader DEB package

Adobe Reader 9.5.5 enu