Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello List,

Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which
> updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser
> plugin were broken.  It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was
> pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade.  These two commands
> will fix it:
>
> rm /etc/alternatives/acroread
> ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread


I observed the same on my amd64 box.

Furthermore, on amd64 box,
Adobe should be in /usr/lib32 rather than /usr/lib (which is /usr/lib64 in fact).


Jerome

> You'll also need to run acroread outside the browser once to accept
> the license before it will work inside the browser (assuming you have
> nppdf.so properly installed).
>
> Patrick

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