How to install Adobe Reader in Linux Ubuntu. Here are the terminal commands to install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu via Flatpak official PPA.
For Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04: Run the following commands in terminal to add the Flatpak official PPA and install Adobe Reader:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flatpak/stable sudo apt update sudo apt install flatpak flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.adobe.Reader.flatpakref
For Ubuntu 20.04 and higher versions: Run the following commands in terminal to install Adobe Reader:
wget -O ~/adobe.deb ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo apt install libxml2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libatk-adaptor:i386 libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0:i386 sudo dpkg -i ~/adobe.deb
You can open and start using Adobe Reader. Open Adobe Reader from Ubuntu Menu or Terminal, type the command “Acroread”.