Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:18:36 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Allan Saddi <asaddi@philosophysw.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, tom@eborcom.com Subject: Re: does the Acrobat plug-in work with Linux Netscape? Message-ID: <36B5C5CC.10E83554@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901291013490.11535-100000@shell2.ba.best.com>
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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
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