Re: Acrobat 7.0 for linux is out
Micha Feigin writes:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:22:34 -0500
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
>
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:37 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > >>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]:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > >>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.
> > >
> > >
> > > Where the heck does /opt come in to the picture? Is that where
> > > you want to store non-dpkg-managed binaries?
> > >
> >
>
> Its what red-hat uses by default for self compiled and non-packaged binaries
> (possibly others, not sure). Debian prefers/usr/local/, thus no /opt by default
> on debian.
>
> > Yeah. /usr/local for self-compiled and/or customized free software
> > packages. /opt for non-free stuff (Acrobat, icc, etc).
> >
I'm not sure its relevant, but on my box, I installed Acro(bat|read)
in the default /usr/local/Adobe, and had to:
ln -s \
/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so \
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so \
where my mozilla is installed in /usr/lib as the default.
Your mileage and paths may differ ... (browse around in Acrobat7.0's
Browser directory and look at the "install_browser_plugin" executable
script for details, if this is relevant.)
John
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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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