Problem Installing Foxit Reader in Manjaro

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Hi, i was trying to install Foxit PDF Reader in Manjaro, i was wondering if someone had a silimilar problem, and how to solve it.
i attach a screenshot of the error message:

Error de la instalacion del Foxit
Error de la instalacion del Foxit1360Ă—729 95.8 KB

I made some research at the web and in this official Manjaro Support but no luck.

Thanks for ur time. Regards

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I just built this successfully using yay.

I just had the same failure using yay. The AUR was last updated in 2022.

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I think you installed the wrong package - your yay output says “installing reader”, which is another AUR package. Try yay with foxitreader.

I just tried building foxitreader using pamac build foxitreader and ended up with with the same error as the OP. It looks like the error relates to the gstreamer0.10-base dependency, which is also an AUR package.

Comments on the AUR (en) - foxitreader page show that they are aware of the issue, and the problem lies with the AUR (en) - gstreamer0.10-base package, which has a suggested fix in the comments.

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Oh, you’re right!!! I put a space in there for some reason… that’s a mess.

I noticed foxitreader AUR is also last updated 2022. Perhaps it is too old.

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There have been recent releases of the software according to the version history: Foxit PDF Reader Version History & Release Notes | Foxit Software, and the AUR package doesn’t seem to have been abandoned as the AUR package maintainer did make a comment a month ago:

Muflone commented on 2024-10-27 22:51 (UTC)

@3xploiton3 @carlosnewmusic

the gstreamer0.10 errors must be reported to the gstreamer0.10 package maintainers.

So I assume the dependency list hasn’t changed - just that one of those dependencies no longer builds on an Arch-based system.

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Thanks for the reply @scotty65, I guess that my only option is to wait for a fix at the repository of gstreamer.
I aprecciate your help, and time corroborating the bug.
Regards.

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Some viable alternatives include:

Both of these are quite decent PDF reader applications.

Regards.

As an afterthought, Calibre is an option;

You might already use it for organising eBooks. Calibre also contains the applications E-Book Editor and E-Book Viewer…

If all you need is a viewer/reader, E-Book Viewer can be set as the default application to open PDF files.

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If OP is not averse to proprietary software, masterpdf editor is very good.

masterpdefeditor 4 is fully functional in that it does not create a watermark upon PDF creation.

masterpdfeditor 5 works well, but has the above mentioned limitation among others that I don’t recall and/or have not encountered.

Both are available via the AUR.

Current version 5:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/masterpdfeditor

Version 4:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/masterpdfeditor-free
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Thanks for the reply.
The functionality i use in Foxit is:

  • Digital Signatures
  • Draw, Mark, add Comments, and other text features
    All this features is in Foxit PDF in windows, and i use it for work and allows me to be productive and save time.

I understand that a common pdf reader is enough for most people, but i use it for work.

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Thanks for the reply, i will test it this night, the most important feature i use is digital signatures, that allows me tu sign the PDFs when i finish the revision, marks, draws and comments of the documents.
BTW, i dont have any problem using private software or most common case, pay for it, as long as it’s secure and useful for my work.

Regards

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Part of the reason for my suggestions was to extract more information from you, as you had thus far not specified anything much beyond reader. I agree, for your purposes something more robust is needed; and likely with editing features also.

I’ll chime in again if I find anything obviously suitable.

In the meantime, are you aware that LibreOffice apparently has PDF signing features? (I wasn’t).

This might prove interesting:

Regards.

Master PDF Editor (as suggested by @jrichard326 ) does indeed seem to meet your needs; at least, as far as I can see from the feature list.

Regards.

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masterpdf seems to do what you require

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Have you tried using Wine?

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@ Furikao foxitreader

As far as I can tell, the Linux version of FoxitReader hasn’t been updated in a long time. One solution might be to install the Windows version with Wine.

However depending on what you want from Foxit, Evince has support for PDF, PostScript, and some other formats you can fill forms, highlight text, and annotate. Normal text selection. Remembers window size and document zoom.

Further to this post:

linux.how2shout.com/install-foxit-pdf-reader-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts-linux/

Foxit discontinued support for Linux some time ago and is prone to random lockups with newer distros. According to their own tech support: "Foxit Reader for Linux has been discontinued for a period of time. Last version for Linux is 2.4 and there is no plan for new update. Below are supported systems.

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Okular can manage digital signatures

You can add digital signatures to documents using the corresponding action in the Tools menu.

To be able to sign a document you need to have a proper PKCS signing certificate available on your system. Okular does not have the ability to create such certificates since they need to be issued by certificate authorities to be useful for validation, etc.

We use the Poppler library to handle signing of PDF documents and Poppler is using the NSS library to handle certificates. At the point of writing, Poppler will try to use one of the following NSS certificate stores in order (the first that exists):

  • The current Firefox user certificate store.
  • The system-wide /etc/pki/nssdb certificate store.
  • The current user $HOME/.pki/nssdb

Though you must first set up the backend.

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Thanks for the reply, not yet gettin into wine/proton, i read something about that, but no time yet to test it.
Right now i’m testin Master PDF.
I appreciate your time and kindness replying.

Regards.