How to Install Adobe Reader 9 in Linux Ubuntu

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”.