FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files

[Paul Howarth]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:11 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> See below.
>>
>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stuart Sears wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Paul Erickson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>>
>>>> you're welcome.
>>>>
>>>>> When I click on a link to a .pdf file I get a "Unable to open document
>>>>> Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'"
>>> Does this happen for every PDF or just some?
>> As far as I can tell, it happens to every pdf.
>>
>>> If you click Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> View Actions, is PDF 
>>> listed? What does it say it will do in that case?
>>>
>> The only thing enabled is the "Open download manager"
>>
>>> Do you have evince or Acrobat Reader plugin installed? Do you have 
>>> mozplugger installed? Is this a 64-bit or 32-bit system?
>>>
>> No, Acrobat is not installed. Neither is mozplugger. This is a 32-bit 
>> system.
> Install acroread and install its plugin in /usr/lib/firefox.x.x

Better still, install the plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and then 
you won't need to reinstall it every time firefox gets updated. And 
it'll work in several other browsers too.

Paul.