On Sunday 23 April 2006 04:58, Chris Lale wrote: >Chris Lale wrote: >> I cannot view PDFs using Firefox in Etch (Testing). I get: >> >> "There was an error while loading the plugin - ewh.api. The >> plugin failed to initialize." >> >> I have these packages installed: >> >> acroread 7.0.5-0.0 >> mozilla-acroread 7.0.5-0.0 >> >> According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Acrobat: >> Adobe Reader Version: 7.0.5 >> >> 1. Install Adobe Reader. >> 2. Create a symbolic link to nppdf.so to your Mozilla plugins >> directory. >> 3. Ensure a copy of acroread is in your PATH. >> >> On my system: >> 2. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/pluginsnppdf.so is a symlink to >> /usr/lib/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so >> 3. Acroread is in my path since I can launch it from a terminal >> window with the command 'acroread'. >> >> According to Acroread Help -> About Adobe Plugins, ewh is loaded. >> There is a note to say that that the Netscape plugin is required for >> loading (this seems to be the nppdf.so file above). >> >> Any suggestions? >> Chris. > >After updating Etch sources, mozilla-acroread is no longer > installable: > > Package mozilla-acroread is not available, but is referred to by >another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > E: Package mozilla-acroread has no installation candidate > >According to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ > > No maintainer for mozilla-acroread. Please do not report new bugs >against this package. > There is no record of the mozilla-acroread package, and no bugs > have been filed against it. > > >Perhaps this is the problem? - there is no package maintainer! I,ll > wait to see if the package reappears and hope that solves the > problem. Otherwise I'll install from Mozilla's tarball at >https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/. > >Thank you all for your suggestions. > >Chris. This is probably unrelated, but acroread, the latest version just installed 3 days ago, doesn't run on my FC5 box with all updates installed. The error is: [root@diablo ~]# acroread /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied which has an selinux flavor to it. So I just set it to permissive & rebooted. And that fixed it, acroread now not only runs from a cli, it also shows up in firefox's about:plugins listing. Now the $64 question is, how do we permit it to run when selinux is in the enforcing mode? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
