acroread plugin not working

[Tim Frost]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:56 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
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> Tobias Heinemann wrote:
> >> acroread-plugins from the universe repository, which you might need to
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> > Sorry, that should read:
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> >> acroread-plugins from the multiverse repository, which you might need to
> Yes, I know...
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> Removing acroread installed to /usr/local and installing ubuntu packages
> (acroread, mozilla-acroread) did not fix the problem. nppdf.so are of
> course identical in ubuntu .deb and Adobe's package.

The plugin lives under /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins (there is a
directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, which some packages install plugins
into, but that seems to be ignored by firefox).  In my case, with flash,
java, totem and acroread plugins installed, I have:
$ ls -l usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
total 2088
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     856 2005-12-13 08:26 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2096844 2005-12-13 08:26 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      39 2005-12-13 08:05 libjavaplugin.so
-> /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   24824 2005-09-23 06:46 libtotem_mozilla.so
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     168 2005-09-23 06:46 libtotem_mozilla.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      50 2005-12-13 12:05 nppdf.so
-> ../../Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so


I have the following acroread packages installed:
tim at marvin:~$ dpkg -l | grep acroread
acroread         7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1
                  Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Form
acroread-plugins   7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1
                  Plugins for Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader
mozilla-acroread   7.0.1-0.0.ubuntu1
                  Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader plugin for mozilla /

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> I can reinstall the system from scratch, but it would be rally useful to
>  find out what causes this problem. No luck so far.
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