From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 1 07:19:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04143 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04133 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (tiburon [158.227.6.111]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA01718; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:18:37 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36B5C5CC.10E83554@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:18:36 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allan Saddi CC: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, tom@eborcom.com Subject: Re: does the Acrobat plug-in work with Linux Netscape? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Allan Saddi wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > ... and netscape starts, but it says that it has not any plug-ins > > attached. > > I got this working by symlinking nppdf.so in my netscape's plugins > directory to ${PREFIX}/Acrobat3/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so. Then, under > Preferences->Navigator->Applications, I created a new entry for > application/pdf, made sure "Plug In: nppdf.so" was selected and hit OK. > > I'm using the netscape4-navigator.us port, but I don't think it should > really matter. > Please, ignore my previous message. I finally found the problem: The linux-netscape port installs Netscape 4.08 (base install) for Linux 1.2. For some reason that I cannot understand, all versions of Netscape for Linux 1.2 are installed without the "plugins" directory, which should contain the "libnullplugin.so" file. Without this file, no plug-in is attached to Netscape. Then, I installed Netscape Professional Edition for Linux 2.0. This version _has_ the "plugins" directory and the "libnullplugin.so" file. Then I made the symlink to "nppdf.so", as you told me, and now the Acrobat plug-in works. I think that the linux-netscape port maintainer should be informed of this problem, and this is the reason for I CC'ed this message to him. Many thanks for your help, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message