Repairing Adobe Reader Plugin for Firefox on K12LTSP 6

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Problem:

On upgrade to K12LTSP version 6, the Adobe Reader plugin ceased to work, even with the most updated versions listed below. Links to pdf's would still open in a new window of acroread, but this is different than opening directly within firefox. The main difficulty was that links from within the opened pdf failed to function.

The cause of this problem was that the file nppdf.so wasn't being placed in the proper location for firefox plugins, and the automatic install scripts couldn't find the directory (which changes with each upgrade of firefox). The following command fixed the problem. 

cp /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.10/plugins/

Installed rpm/versions:

K12LTSP release 6.0.0-2
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)

AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1
acroread-plugin-7.0.8-1.k12ltsp.6.0.0
firefox-1.5.0.10-5.fc6

-- Patrick Healy (Palm Desert High School)

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