Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71340
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux and Java2 plugin (jre.xpi) for Mozilla don't work under limbo
Last modified: 2016-11-24 09:56:58 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 Description of problem: Both Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux and Java2 plugin (jre.xpi) for Mozilla don't work under limbo for various reasons. Both seem to have problems loading and/or rendering to screen. Java2 plugin seems to load applets, but does not draw them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download and try to use Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux with any PDFs. 2.Download and install jre.xpi from the Mozilla URL bar (enable Software Installation) and try to view various applets. Additional info:
(redhat null) I have installed acrobat reader 5.0.6 as you suggested. When I run it this happens: Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted If I do this: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 And then starts acrobat reader /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread it works! /Richard
I had the same problem, so I added the line above: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 to both the acroread script at: /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread and the netscape script at: /usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/netscape and otherwise followed all relevant instructions on the setup of Acrobat. Unlike before, now all is well, both when Acrobat is used on a standalone basis and as a plug-in.
On RH 8.0, the acroread still cannot run due to the following error: Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted I fixed it by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change from LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1". I am not sure whether there is any side effects.
For Adobe Acrobat Reader and Mozilla plugin, you can conveniently install this RPM: http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html The latest versions of Sun Java works fine. I recommend closisng this as NOTABUG.