Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 23:34 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:Nate Bargmann wrote:* Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> [2005 Mar 15 09:44 -0600]:Apparently the description "out" is a little premature.From the Adobe forums:To: <adobe.reader@adobeforums.com> A new message was posted by MarkATS in *Adobe Reader* -- Reader 7.0 exits immediately on Linux Reader 7 for LINUX is still in BETA. There isn't a public release yet.I didn't have any problems running it or reading PDFs, but I wasn't able to get the plugin to work in the Mozilla.org builds of Seamonkey 1.8b or Firefox of late February. The browsers recognize the plugin, but then don't embed Acroread. Beats me if it's a MIME issue or what.Funny. I recently noticed the same thing. The kicker is I have two (nearly) identical Sarge boxes. On one, the plugin works great. On the other, it won't embed, I just download the PDF whenever I click on a link to a PDF.http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/manuals/qi-pvrpci-250350.pdf That link quickly loads/embeds Acroread and the document into Mozilla 1.7.5-1 This file (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so) was copied in from /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux.
OK. Figured it out. On one box I linked /opt/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread into /usr/local/bin and on the other into /opt/bin (I had added /opt/bin to the PATH variable in /etc/profile). That is what was causing the problem. I did some google searching and found that /etc/login.defs gets read in before the login process starts. So I updated ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH in /etc/login.defs to contain /opt/bin. I then rebooted the machine (it's a laptop and never gets much uptime anyway) just to be sure. However, this did not do it. The question is, how do I get /opt/bin into the default PATH? It would appear that as long as I run moz from an xterm (where the PATH is set by /etc/profile), it works. If I run it from the Menu, it doesn't work. I am wondering if maybe X or gdm ignore the ENV_PATH specification. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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