Use the following commands in a Terminal window to accomplish this: sudo apt-get remove winetricks You will need to install the most modern version of winetricks. With winecfg open make sure that it is set to 'Windows XP', this has been tested as giving the best performance with the Acrobat Reader. WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg First back up any default wine configuration and then create the prefix: mv ~/.wine ~/.wine_bak Once this rather hefty download is done you will need to set a 32 bit prefix for wine to use, necessary for the Adobe Acrobat to work properly. Run the following command in a Terminal window to install wine and a few extra applications: sudo apt-get install wine cabextract p7zip unrar unzip wget zenity It just takes a little bit of finesse :). However if you are really keen it is still possible to install Adobe Reader X1 (version 11.0.08) under Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 using wine.
There are many decent pdf readers available for a Linux system these days, my own personal favourite being Okular.
