Clicking URLs with acroread8

[Sean C. Farley]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 12/09/2011 16:14, Doug Barton wrote:
>> I receive PDF documents with URLs that I need to click, and so I 
>> would like to get that working in acroread8. I symlink'ed firefox 
>> into /compat/linux/usr/local/bin, and set the preferences in acroread
>> accordingly. That got me from a "firefox not found" error to this, 
>> printed out in the terminal:
>>
>> libfam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>> directory Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiofam.so
>>
>> Since I have that lib installed as a result of the linux-base port, I 
>> assume that what is missing is something that it depends on.
>>
>> Any help resolving this is welcome.
>>
>> Alternatively, if I could extract the URL from the link, that'd be 
>> awesome too. :)
>
> I tried everyone's suggestions, no luck.
>
> Adding the gamin port prevents the error, but doesn't make the url 
> clicking work.
>
> I tried an sh version of Sean's script, caused my system to lock up 
> completely.

zsh is better.  :)

It locked up your system?  No ping?  Could it be that acroreadwrapper 
needs to be rebuilt?  It has a kernel module, but I am not sure if that 
would be related as I think it is used only by acroread9 (yes?).  Also, 
I assume you are using linux_base-f10.

With the script, did you change the preference to use it?  Is the link 
in /compat/linux/usr/local/bin still there?

Where is libfam.so.0?  I only have a native version.  Did you see that 
error message when the system locked up?

Sean
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