-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:14 pm, Anthony J Placilla wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:05, Charles Howse wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > I've installed both acroread and mozilla-acroread. > > > > [charles@moe charles]$ rpm -qa mozilla-acroread acroread > > acroread-5.0.8-0.fdr.7 > > mozilla-acroread-5.0.8-1.rhfc1.dag > > > > but, when I open a pdf file in firebird, I still get asked which > > application to use. > > > > I thought installing mozilla-acroread would set up the default > > application to be acroread? > > - -- > > Charles Howse > > Mozilla & FireFox have separate plugins directories. You'll need to copy > the acroread plugin into your firefox specific plugins dir. > > using my system as an example (locations may vary) > > cp /usr/lib/acroread/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so \ > /usr/local/firefox/plugins/ Hmmmm...there may be more to this than I thought... [root@moe root]# locate nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so [root@moe root]# ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Jun 14 15:08 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so - -> /usr/lib/acroread/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so (flashing red, indicating a broken link) [root@moe root]# ls -l /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Jun 14 15:08 /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so - -> /usr/lib/acroread/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so (flashing red, indicating a broken link) [root@moe root]# ls -l /usr/lib/acroread/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so ls: /usr/lib/acroread/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so: No such file or directory So...I used # yum provides nppdf.so, and found that acroread-plugin obsoletes nppdf.so. Then I used yumi to install acroread-plugin, and bingo, it works now! Thanks for the nudge! - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux User # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) GnuPG ID - 1F5130A8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0DlL/S+VsB9RMKgRAjccAJ4xWNpj1xIQ/+jRdbf708yxRxoQ4QCffCPP yVHOErC0yLNjv/sxusT5duA= =WadU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
