Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote on 2008-03-24 13:12: Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade.

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives. J. -- Whenever I hear the word 'art' I reach for my visa card. [Agree]

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives.

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Patrick, pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread You'll also

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Patrick, pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:39 -0400 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Patrick, Maybe I caught the upgrade at a bad moment! :-) Indeed. TBH, I have no idea what could have caused such a problem as you describe. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is

Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm