Acrobat 7.0 is not yet available in my Synaptic Package Manager on my Hoary box. So I downloaded the latest tar.gz file and installed it.
Now I have a /usr/local/Acrobat5 and a /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0
Currently, if I click on a pdf link in a web page it opens acroread for version 5.
I see in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat where it points to the version 5 acroread, but it also says not to edit the file.
Looking in the firefox
preferences, I don't see what to do to update that pluginreg.dat.
Maybe that file is generated automatically, depending on what it discovers, rather than being generated from some direct input. Maybe I just need to go here:
Code:
bs@bsubuntu:/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 2005-04-01 16:18 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jre1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2005-04-01 16:38 mozplugger.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2005-04-18 15:20 mplayerplug-in.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2005-04-10 13:33 nppdf.so -> /usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so
and redirect the link to nppdf.so to the Acrobat7.0 path and delete (or, well, rename) the pluginreg.dat file... and then it'll get regenerated.
I'm gonna try it!
