How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy? (RESOLVED)

[joneall]

Firefox hangs when trying to load acrobat plugin.

I have added mulitverse to my sources:

$ grep -i multi sources.list
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
# deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security multiverse

but apt-get can't find any acroread-plugins

$ sudo apt-get install acroread acroread-plugins
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
acroread est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
Aucune version du paquet acroread-plugins n'est disponible, mais il existe dans la base
de données. Cela signifie en général que le paquet est manquant, qu'il est devenu obsolète
ou qu'il n'est disponible que sur une autre source
Cependant les paquets suivants le remplacent:
acroread
E: Aucun paquet ne correspond au paquet acroread-plugins

I don't know why it insists on speaking french when my system is entirely in english. I have declared fr as my second locale, e.g.:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:fr_FR:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

but that is a second question.

So how do I get the acroread plugin? And why does this have to be so complicated, given the relative simplicity of most things in (K)ubuntu?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Detonate]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy?

You need to install mozilla-acroread. It's in the medibuntu repositories, so you have to add them to your sources list first.

[joneall]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy?

Thanks for your suggestion.

I thought medibuntu was installed. I don't understand why it doesn't show up in sources.lst, but there is a file medibuntu.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. I have no idea what the purpose of that directory is.

I also installed the key, as explained on the Medibuntu page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu.

But it still doesn't find any mozilla-acroread plugin:

$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Aucune version du paquet mozilla-acroread n'est disponible, mais il existe dans la base
de données. Cela signifie en général que le paquet est manquant, qu'il est devenu obsolète
ou qu'il n'est disponible que sur une autre source
E: Aucun paquet ne correspond au paquet mozilla-acroread

The last line says "No packet corresponds to the packet mozilla-acroread".

Do I have a corrupted sources.list or something. And where can I find out why some repositories are in sources.list and some in sources.list.d?

Thanks for your continuing (I hope!) assistance.

[toad]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy?

That basically means that your medibuntu repo is not activated. I am aware that, if you follow their guide, the repo does not show up in the /etc/apt/sources.list - a right pita imho. To do just that add

# Medibuntu
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

to your sources.list and do an update. Now you definitely should be able to install the mozilla-acroread package

[arochester]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy?

...The Medibuntu Repository has a GPG key so as well as the above you will need to run in the Terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

[joneall]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy?

It worked with the key, whatever that is. Is this stuff explained somewhere?

In any case, thanks a million. I'm saving this info for the next time.

[toad]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy? (RESOLVED)

Glad it worked for you

Could you please mark this thread as SOLVED - see my signature for details.

Thanks.

[arochester]

Re: How to get acrobat plugin to work with Firefox in Hardy? (RESOLVED)

It worked with the key, whatever that is. Is this stuff explained somewhere?

GPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard

It's about security. It mostly applied to emails being encrypted. Why it applies to some repositories I don't know. Maybe someone else will come along and tell us...