On 13/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/13/14 07:35, Rolf Turner wrote:
Yes, I had to muck around a bit to get Adobe Reader installed; yum didn't "directly" work (probably because my Fedora 17 is EOL).
According to notes that I kept, the recipe (found somewhere on the web) that I used was:
su rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch... rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux yum -y install nspluginwrapper.i686 AdobeReader_enu
This seemed to work .... until now???
The output from the ldd command is lengthy, so I am sending it as an attachment.
Thanks very much for taking the time to think about my problem.
OK.... Seems like reader is installed fine. You can prove this by running "acroread" and bringing up the reader.....which is a 32-bit application.
I use acroread all the time and it seems to work just fine.
I'm pretty sure the error message is harmless as I don't think t-birdmakes use of that particular plug-in.
I kind of figured that. Still I don't like having these little untidinesses in my system. Upsets my OC craving for order.
Now, you probably will run into a bit of difficulty or inconvenience.You have 2 copies of t-bird installed. One is well integrated with Fedora. The other not. So, if you were to click on a mailto: link in a web page, the older version of T-Bird will start. Also, at the moment, you are probably starting T-Bird from a command line. Not sure if you want to go about fixing that.
I think I know how to handle that. I am *currently* starting T-bird from the command line, but now that I am reasonably happy that the upgrade is working OK I'm pretty sure that I can tidy things up and make T-bird start from a clickable icon.
FWIW, when I previously replied I didn't notice that my message went directly to you. This AM I resent to the list for completeness. If you want to keep this discussion off-list, it is fine by me.
Not a problem to stay on-list. I just replied to your off-list message before I saw your on-list one. I am cc-ing this reply to the list.
Another thing..... On my systems I have....
[egreshko@meimei opt]$ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
I don't think that latest, and last, version is in the Adobe repo. I downloaded the rpm from Adobe and installed directly.
I just did "rpm -q AdobeReader_enu" on my laptop and got
AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
which is, unless my eyes deceive me, exactly what you got. So (unless I misunderstand) all is well, nicht wahr?
Thanks for your help.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 07/13/14 08:32, Rolf Turner wrote:
Now, you probably will run into a bit of difficulty or inconvenience.You have 2 copies of t-bird installed. One is well integrated with Fedora. The other not. So, if you were to click on a mailto: link in a web page, the older version of T-Bird will start. Also, at the moment, you are probably starting T-Bird from a command line. Not sure if you want to go about fixing that.
I think I know how to handle that. I am *currently* starting T-bird from the command line, but now that I am reasonably happy that the upgrade is working OK I'm pretty sure that I can tidy things up and make T-bird start from a clickable icon.
Yes, fixing the clicking on icon issue is fairly straight forward. Fixing the mailto: link issue would require a bit more effort.
FWIW, when I previously replied I didn't notice that my message went directly to you. This AM I resent to the list for completeness. If you want to keep this discussion off-list, it is fine by me.
Not a problem to stay on-list. I just replied to your off-list message before I saw your on-list one. I am cc-ing this reply to the list.
Great. I just proved once again that I'm less careful in my replies later in the evening and in the AM before coffee. :-)
I just did "rpm -q AdobeReader_enu" on my laptop and got
AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
which is, unless my eyes deceive me, exactly what you got. So (unless I misunderstand) all is well, nicht wahr?
Yep, that is the latest.
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Rolf Turner