On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:37 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 08 October 2006 11:57, Dave Howorth wrote:
I recently updated my 9.3 system with YOU. Now Firefox can't view PDFs :( When I try to view one, it says:
Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable ...
I have the following on my systems running Firefox 1.5.0.7:
carl@linux:~> locate nppdf.so /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
I have this. It's dated 2006-06-26 17:40
Plus symlinks to /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so here: /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/nppdf.so
I don't have this. That directory contains: libnullplugin.so* mplayerplug-in-qt.so@ mplayerplug-in.so@ mplayerplug-in-gmp.so@ mplayerplug-in-rm.so@ mplayerplug-in-wmp.so@
/usr/lib/browser-plugins/nppdf.so
I do have that. It's a symlink to ../../X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/nppdf.so
I don't have a /usr/lib/firefox directory.
With recent SUSE releases, the 'central store' for browser plug-ins is the directory /usr/lib/browser-plugins, and most SUSE-specific rpm packages will 'land' their plug-ins in this central store. Some will retain a predefined unique plug-in location, in which case symlinks pointing to them are placed in the central store. In case you're wondering, the rationale for such a central store is to ease plug-ins maintenance and allow them to be shared by multiple browsers.
You are aware, aren't you, that you can review the listing of active installed plug-ins in Firefox by entering "about:plugins" in the address bar? I'd check there to see what Firefox is 'seeing' for installed and active plug-ins.
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! Since Firefox provides a menu item to manage extensions then it ought to provide a similar menu item for plugins, IMHO, and I'd been disappointed not to find that. Adobe reader 7.0 is listed: Adobe Reader 7.0 File name: nppdf.so The Adobe Reader plugin is used to enable viewing of PDF and FDF files from within the browser. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/pdf Portable Document Format pdf Yes application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf Yes application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Package xdp Yes application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd Yes but I don't see anything there that looks like a problem.
Another comment: Quite awhile back, I can't recall which versions were involved, but I had an Acroread plug-in version conflict where the preceding plug-in with a different name (but containing the string 'pdf') was retained and conflicting with the new plug-in named 'nppdf.so'. So, you need to look under all the directories on your system containing plug-ins and ensure obsolete plug-ins are removed... even check under your local user browser 'hidden' files like ~/.mozilla or ~/.firefox, etc.
I don't know where to look. But there's nothing in the directories you listed and nothing that matches '*pdf* under ~/.mozilla and I don't have a ~/.firefox (I do have ~/.mozilla/firefox). In summary, I haven't seen anything that gives me a clue :( Thanks for the pointers, Dave