On Friday 15 April 2005 04:56, Colin Carter wrote:
The stand-alone Adobe Reader will work fine under a 64-bit system, since it emulates a 32 bit environment as needed. If you're running 64-bit browser, then I think the 32-bit plug-in supplied with the reader package won't work and you will not be able to view PDF files within the browser. To my knowledge, there's no 64-bit plug-in from Adobe, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
That I can manage: I will just have to open the reader from the menu. A drag, but (yet another) consequence of 'upgrading'.
You won't have to if you use firefox, since the firefox in the x86_64 distro is actually 32 bit, so it can handle all the 32 bit plugins
However, just as I predicted, things always go awry with upgrades. I download with Konqueror and, right at the end, Konqueror invokes Yast which asks me if I want to install, so I click 'install'. Yast opens up with nothing in the window. That is, I think Yast has gone walk-about. No worries, I can install the rpm. Not on your Nellie: the rpm file has been deleted by Yast. Three times I tried it and 38MB is not quick to download. Any ideas on how to down load the rpm without Yast grabbing and disposing of it?
Delete the file /opt/kde3/share/services/krpmview.desktop (or uninstall kdebase3-SuSE, but then you'll lose other things as well) I deleted this file and am now trying another download - will get back to you.
Now you understand why I hate this round-about and wanted to get away from M$?
The big difference isn't what's in the defaults. It's how easy it is to get away from them Anders, I understand what you are saying, but only Linux gurus know what to do. The rest of us, eg linguistics, accountants, scientists, aeronautical engineers, biochemists, .... Don't know! Anyway, I really do appreciate this advice, and I am grateful that there are
Thanks Anders, On Friday 15 April 2005 13:12, Anders Johansson wrote: people like you around to save the rest of us. Regards, Colin