Firefox Acroread plugin not working

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 April 2006 19:14, Kam Leo wrote:
>On 4/23/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 April 2006 17:17, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> >On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:36, Lauri wrote:
>> >>> # chcon -t texrel_shlib_t
>> >>> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so
>> >>>
>> >>> Lauri
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much Lauri, that worked like a champ.  But why
>> >> does it seem to be such a huge secret other than its ulitmately
>> >> being usefull to the blackhats?
>> >>
>> >> I assume that this command line (the top line above) can be used
>> >> against any other known good (we think) but similarly
>> >> malfunctioning (the bottom line above) program?
>> >
>> >Yes, if you are sure that's the malfunction.  The binary NVIDIA
>> > driver's GLX and VMWare Workstation are the other examples I know
>> > of. Are there others?
>>
>> That question is rhetorical I assume as we won't know till it bites
>> us again if there are any others.  But it does tend to show just how
>> much committment Adobe has in supporting linux.  Their test box is
>> probably still running rh6.1...
>>
>> >--
>> >   Matthew Saltzman
>> >
>> >Clemson University Math Sciences
>> >mjs AT clemson DOT edu
>> >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>>
>Gene, how is Adobe responsible for a problem caused by Red Hat /
>Fedora Core developers? You are using essentially the same version of
>Acrobat Reader that worked without problems for Fedora Core 4. It is
>not Adobe's fault that the Red Hat / Fedora Core  implementers of
>SELinux changed the rules after Acrobat Reader 7 was released. If you
>have a bone to pick, take it up with the responsible party.

Well now, I *thought* that was what I was doing in posting to this list. 
and the fix did eventually come from here, no doubt deciphered by 
someone intimatly familiar with selinux and the errors it may cause to 
be thrown.  As a new user to selinux, how would I have recognized that 
error when the docs are so limited, literally one page, 1/3 of which is 
credits.

But it appears the fix is to request that Adobe include that command in 
the rpms post-install script, so I have also requested that of Adobe.

Applying logic, there isn't a whole lot the FC release crew could have 
done or would need to do to alleviate it once the nature of the problem 
was known.  It is not their code to be responsible for, its Adobe's, so 
if they want it to run on an as installed FC5 box, which it should, 
then its up to them to fix it IMNSHO.

Is this the wrong attitude on my part?

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