ebuild of acroread puts a link to /opt/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so in the system mozilla directory (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins). This results in harmless, but annoying (and, BTW, misleading) error message each time mozilla/firefox is launched: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so [/opt/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
32bit plugins are installed on amd64 so that they can be used with a 32bit browser. i.e emerge mozilla-firefox-bin and then you will be able to use netscape-flash and acroread plugins as you would on x86. Aside from the status message you mention this has no adverse side affects for a native browser. If you would really prefer not to have the 32bit plugin installed then you can simply: # echo "app-text/acroread noplugin" >> /etc/portage/package.use
While I understand that I recently emerged Acroread 7.0 to view some PDFs and found that firefox(native) was no longer comming up. I deleted the plugin in /opt/netscape/plugins but I had the same problem. After searching my drive to nppfd.so I found it in /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins. Why would it be in a lib64 dir when its a 32bit app?
