When telling portage to install acroread, it nicely installs de appropriate links in both Netscape's and Mozilla's plugin directories. However, ik does not create a symbolic link from the acroread executable in the /opt/Acrobat5 directory to /usr/bin. Without this link, the plugin doesn't work. placing a simple "ln -s /opt/Acrobat5/acroread /usr/bin" line to the ebuild script should do the trick. :) By the way, does anybody here know how to get the Acrobat Reader to use the mousewheel? That would be really nice. :)
about the first question: check your /etc/env.d/10acroread5 installed by acroread. /opt/Acrobat5 will be automatically added to your PATH. Maurizio aka j2ee
and the plugin (with mozilla) works nicely without any link. sexybit plugins $ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Aug 24 10:25 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so -> /opt/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so
noe should it make the symlink. The environment variable PATH should contain the path to the acroread binary. If anything, log out and back in, and you should be able to just type 'acroread' at the command line to have it run.
