acroread plugin not working

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Tim Frost wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:56 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
Yes, I have essentially the same.

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

The problem was that libXt.so and libXext.so (libxt-dev, libxext-dev
packages) were missing. Starting firefox from the command line revealed
the error on missing libraries while trying to load nppdf.so. I think
those should be added to mozilla-acroread dependencies.

I haven't seen the problem before 'cause most likely some other packages
were already installed wich had libXt.so in their dependencies.

Sarunas
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