acroread plugin not working

[Wade Smart]

12132005 0750 GMT-5

I noticed as well that the plugin has stopped working on my system. It 
was fine and it fails to work at all. I started firefox via the cmd line 
but it started right up without any messages of errors.

Wade


Sarunas Burdulis wrote:

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>>On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:56 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
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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.
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>>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
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>Yes, I have essentially the same.
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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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>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.
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>I haven't seen the problem before 'cause most likely some other packages
>were already installed wich had libXt.so in their dependencies.
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>Sarunas
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