Re: Firefox Acroread plugin not working
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.
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