[15207] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.1.4: acroread Netscape plugin won't run - sun4x_55 symlink needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Thu Jun 19 10:19:14 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:19:09 EDT
From: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
System name: central
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.1.4
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
view a pdf file in Netscape
What's wrong:
Netscape asks me where I want to save the file.
What should have happened:
Netscape should tell me that it can't find the plugin, but
there's nothing we can really do to fix that.
Here's the problem we can fix:
athena% ls -l /mit/acro/nsplugins
lrwxr-xr-x 1 20353 root 19 Mar 27 11:34 /mit/acro/nsplugins -> arch/@sys/nsplugins
athena% ls -lL /mit/acro/nsplugins
/mit/acro/nsplugins: No such file or directory
athena% ls -l /mit/acro/arch/@sys/nsplugins
lrwxr-xr-x 1 20353 101 53 Mar 27 11:44 /mit/acro/arch/@sys/nsplugins -> /mit/acro/current/distrib/@sys/Acrobat3/Browsers/@sys
athena% ls /mit/acro/current/distrib/@sys/Acrobat3/Browsers
netscape sparcsolaris sun4m_53 sun4m_54
Looks like you created two of the three symlinks needed to get things
working with a new verision of Solaris. However, you still need one in
/mit/acro/current/distrib/@sys/Acrobat3/Browsers.
I would suggest structuring the locker as much as possible so that you
only need to remember to put in one symlink. For example, putting
distrib under /mit/acro/arch/@sys instead of using
/mit/acro/current/distrib/@sys.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
lockers(7)
