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Warning: this program is not known to work
Why Foxit?
Even though Ubuntu comes with a lot of great applications for working with PDFs, some functionality is not available in the programs installable through the standard repositories, and sometimes people just prefer something other than Evince, Kpdf, or Adobe Reader. Foxit is one of those programs.
How to Install Foxit
Paste these commands into the terminal:
Download Foxit
wget -c http://mirrors.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/unix/1.x/1.0/enu/FoxitReader10_Linux_enu_i386.tar.bz2
Unzip the archive
tar -jxvf FoxitReader10_Linux_enu_i386.tar.bz2
Move the executable to a universal location
sudo mkdir /opt/foxit sudo mv Foxit /opt/foxit/
Make the executable universally available
sudo ln -s /opt/foxit/Foxit/FoxitReader /usr/bin/foxit
Now, the command foxit should launch the application.
Remove the original archive
After you test out that Foxit is working properly, you can remove the original .tar.gz file you downloaded with the first command
rm FoxitReader10_Linux_enu_i386.tar.bz2
Another advanced PDF application
PDFedit is also a popular advanced PDF program.