Slackware 12 & Click n Ship

slackass · 03-14-2008, 01:34 PM

Hi,
I've been screwing around with this for several weeks now and still can't find a solution.
I'm trying to get the U S Postal “Click n Ship” to work with slack.
The problem is that it wont open the box from the Firefox browser to print the label.
Every other distro that I've tried it with works with Click n Ship, but not Slack.
This leads me to believe that theres just some setting somewhere that I'm unaware of that needs to be enabled.
I do have acroread installed.
Any ideas?

sunman · 03-15-2008, 12:01 AM

Only thing I can think of (never used the service before) is that you might need to allow popups for the site. On my firefox an icon appears on the bottom status bar when a site is trying to open a popup box that you can click on to allow it temporarily, or you can look in Edit/Preferences in the Content section. Should be able to allow popups there or add an exception for the site.

Hope it helps

slackass · 03-15-2008, 08:46 AM

Thanks but that wasent it.
I think it's something with Adobe. I cant remember where I got if from but I think I need to start from scratch and use a Slack Build.

slackass · 03-16-2008, 07:57 PM

SOLVED:

The problem was the Adobereader that I installed wasn't working correctly.

I downloaded the rpm from Adobe's site and made a tgz package with gnashley's excellent src2pkg tool and installed it.
Now everything works perfect. .... Thanks again gnashley.

Hindsight:
I should get out of the lazy habit of using premade packages.
The solution to this was so simple that now I feel kinda stupid for posting it instead of going back over what I did. But thats what I like about Slack, it has no tolerance for stupidity.

T3slider · 03-16-2008, 08:51 PM

A SlackBuild for Adobe Acrobat Reader is at slackbuilds.org (acroread) as well.

slackass · 03-16-2008, 09:16 PM

Yeah I know.
If I would have just done it right the first time there would not have been a problem.

T3slider · 03-17-2008, 11:02 PM

slackass, don't worry. I've definitely regretted some of my initial packaging decisions. My new PC is pretty clean, but my old one was cluttered with stuff that was nearly impossible to actually uninstall -- not a good scenario. Nothing went wrong luckily, but if it did I'd have had some trouble. (Quite a bit worse than just using a prebuilt, non-working package too -- at least you can uninstall that)