Help installing acrobat reader
 

I'm trying to install acrobat reader for mozilla 1.4 on my mandrake 9.1 system, because for some reason xpdf won't let me print... anyhow, i have reader installed in /usr/local/acrobat5, but i can't figure out how to get mozila to see it as a plugin... on mozilla's plugin page it said:
"Linux: Copy nppdf.so to your Mozilla plugins directory, and ensure a copy of (or symlink to) acroread is in your PATH"
So i copied nppdf.so into the /home/[user]/.mozilla/plugins/ directory... but i'm not sure what it means by "acroread is in your PATH"... I know how to make a symlink, and I found a program called acroread in /usr/local/acrobat5/bin/ ...but what path does it mean? can anyone tell me what commands to use to get it to work? thanks

acroread is the executable file that runs acrobat. It is saying to make sure that it's location is in your path. That location being in the directory /usr/local/acrobat5/bin. Since that might not be in your path you should create a link to it from your path (I think), such as from /usr/bin maybe. acroread just needs to be accessible.

The command 'echo $PATH' will show you your path.

Hmmm... now that you mention it, the pdf plugin isn't working on this system.
I have this in my plugin page:
And I have:
And it doesn't work. Time to search and read and search and read and search and read.... :study: :scratch:

cp /usr/local/Acrobat5/intellinux/npddf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins/

change location of mozilla plugins directory to what's appropriate

and as it'sjustme says add the the location of acroread to your system path, can put it in /etc/profile

add the line

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin


logout and login back in again and it should work

If you did the default install of acrobat without changing any locations it'll be /usr/local/Acrobat5 not /usr/local/acrobat5 but that was probably just a typo

extracted from http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_browsing/mozilla.html ( it works for me ):

...
# Installing Adobe Acrobat is fairly simple as well.

* tar -xvzf linux-505.tar.gz
* cd ILINXR.install
* ./INSTALL

This will run the install script which will prompt you for the final location to install Acrobat. After this runs, you should run the following command to create a link in your path to the acroread startup script (the recommended way to run the program directly:

* ln -s <acrohome>/bin/acroread /usr/bin/acroread

Finally, to make it available as a plugin...

* cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s <acro-home>/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so
...