Re: FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:11 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> See below.
> 
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stuart Sears wrote:
> >
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> >> Paul Erickson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Stuart,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the reply.
> >>
> >>
> >> you're welcome.
> >>
> >>> When I click on a link to a .pdf file I get a "Unable to open document
> >>> Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'"
> >>
> >
> > Does this happen for every PDF or just some?
> 
> As far as I can tell, it happens to every pdf.
> 
> > If you click Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> View Actions, is PDF 
> > listed? What does it say it will do in that case?
> >
> The only thing enabled is the "Open download manager"
> 
> > Do you have evince or Acrobat Reader plugin installed? Do you have 
> > mozplugger installed? Is this a 64-bit or 32-bit system?
> >
> No, Acrobat is not installed. Neither is mozplugger. This is a 32-bit 
> system.
Install acroread and install its plugin in /usr/lib/firefox.x.x
> 
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>