Firefox Acroread plugin not working
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 23 16:51:02 UTC 2006
On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:23, Stanton Finley wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 April 2006 04:58, Chris Lale wrote:
>> >Chris Lale wrote:
>> >> I cannot view PDFs using Firefox in Etch (Testing). I get:
>> >>
>> >> "There was an error while loading the plugin - ewh.api. The
>> >> plugin failed to initialize."
>> >>
>> >> I have these packages installed:
>> >>
>> >> acroread 7.0.5-0.0
>> >> mozilla-acroread 7.0.5-0.0
>
>As root do a "yum -y remove acroread mozilla-acroread" and then follow
>the instructions in the Adobe Reader section at
>http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html.
>--
>Stanton Finley
>http://stanton-finley.net/
And I forgot to note in the previous message that for some reason,
selinux is disabling acroread unless set for permissive. This needs
addressed also. I don't want to have to depend on a tail of the log to
tell me when things are going in the toilet.
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