Adobe reader gives "ppklite" error

[4ebees]

I've installed 7.0 as per Thomas Chung's very easy to follow instructions.

Reader works very well, except on start-up I get the following error message:

There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api' The plug-in failed to initialise

Has anyone else had this error and what exactly is the problem?

Any information, redirection or advice is most appreciated.

[tchung]

Hello,

Try rebuilding RPM with the updated spec for AdobeReader I just posted.
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/AdobeReader/7.0/AdobeReader.spec
Make sure to reload browser so you don't get cached copy.
The changelog should say:
* Wed Apr 20 2005 Thomas Chung <tchung@fedoranews.org> 7.0-2
- Rebuild 7.0 with TAR released on 2005-04-12
- No need to disable build root strip policy
- Use symlink instead of copying plugin

Thomas Chung

[4ebees]

Thanks Thomas,

Sorry for being a bit concrete, but are you saying I should reinstall Ffox (my browser)?

Should I remove remove the Adobe RPM and Ffox, or reinstall both over the top of the existing installations?

Thanks.

[tchung]

Thanks Thomas,

Sorry for being a bit concrete, but are you saying I should reinstall Ffox (my browser)?

Should I remove remove the Adobe RPM and Ffox, or reinstall both over the top of the existing installations?

Thanks.

Just AdobeReader. As I mentioned in my previous post, I posted an updated spec file with release 7.0-2. Make sure to download the fresh copy of TAR ball from Adobe site as well.

Just to be safe, remove old AdobeReader RPM before installing new RPM.

Thomas Chung

[4ebees]

Hmmmm...

I did just that. Uninstalled. Rebuilt the RPM with the 7.0-2 and ... same problem. Weird. It works perfectly well otherwise - in fact I'm very impressed. This is odd!

[reddazz]

You need to install openldap to sort out the PPKLite.api plugin problem.

[phillywize]

Howdy,

I installed openldap but got no resolution. Here's a quick-and-dirty fix that I used:

Rename /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/PPKLite.api

to

/usr/lib/AdobeReader/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/_PPKLite.api_

(or anything else that will get it out of the way).

Voila. No startup error. I heard somewhere that Adobe was "working on it." Hm. At any rate, it's a nice program.

To Thomas Chung, thanks for your work in making a good installation of it accessible to Newbs like myself.

Bob

[reddazz]

In the release notes it says that installing openldap should solve the problem, but your solution also works fine.

[tchung]

To Thomas Chung, thanks for your work in making a good installation of it accessible to Newbs like myself.

Bob

Glad to be your help. :)

Thomas Chung

[4ebees]

Hi phillywize,

Genius!

Worked immediately. Thanks to you and to Thomas (and Adobe for finally upgrading for Linux users).

Thanks ball boys and ball girls :)

[phillywize]

Thomas: thanks for all YOUR help...I'm a fan.

4ebees: I've been sponging fixes and linux advice off of these forums (and people like Thomas) for so long, that it's nice to finally be able to provide a fix...even a modest one like this!

[4ebees]

Well, I'm jealous! :))