Customization Wizards and reader 8.1.2

Question

Trying to install the update, I have customized the install but the remove previous version is greyed out, therefore can not select. When I run the install it does a repair. Does anyone know how to fix or the variable to set to force the uninstall of previous version?
Also is there a file for reader that is just the patch and not the complete package?

Answer 1

Yes, not being able to input öäüßÖÜÄ is indeed the same
problem as discussed in
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370330
If acroread is started like this:
env -i XMODIFIERS=@im=local GTK_IM_MODULE=xim LANG=de_DE HOME=/home/mfabian DISPLAY=:0 acroread editable-file.pdf
input of öäüßÖÄÜ works, if started like this:
env -i XMODIFIERS=@im=local GTK_IM_MODULE=xim LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 HOME=/home/mfabian DISPLAY=:0 acroread editable-file.pdf
it does *not* work.
I.e. this is indeed the same problem as reported in
the above mentioned Novell bug.
To test this I removed the workaround I added to /usr/bin/acroread
temporarily.
The acroread package for openSUSE Factory (upcoming 11.0)
contains this workaround in /usr/bin/acroread:
# Workaround for https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=370330
if [ "$GTK_IM_MODULE" == "xim" ] ; then
for lc in LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY
LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION
do
eval val="\$$lc"
case "$val" in
*.UTF-8*)
eval $lc=\${val%%[.@]*}
esac
done
fi
Unfortunately this has not yet been released for older openSUSE versions.