I reinstalled Acrobat 5 to run it under wine. It didn't work. The reason appeared to be again a plugin: DocBox.api. After removing it everything went smoothly. Already before (using RedHat 9) I have had trouble with a Acrobat plugin (it was WebPDF.api at that time). Most manipulation of pdf files can be easily done with Linux tools, but one thing is tricky: cropping already existing pdf files. That's why I need Acrobat.
The error message during VMware setup (vmware-config.pl) is due to the fact that Suse 9 has a too new package for the requested library:
/usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The following fixes the problem:
ln -s /usr/lib/libpopt.so.1 /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0
If you have executables (programs, scripts), that need root privileges to run (e.g. that mount something), you don't need to type in the su password everytime.
You can set the suid for that file and change its owner to root:
chmod u+s filename chown root filename