Friday, August 6, 2010

Little victory

I have a linux box running on openSUSE 11.1 in my office. Firefox on the machine was not configured to open pdf files in the browser and after years of downloading files just to view them I found a solution. All I needed to do was to put this plugin called nppdf.so in the folder ~/.mozilla/plugins/. Now I couldn't find a single working link that would let me download the plugin. Frustrated, I did a simple "find / -name nppdf.so" on my terminal and found it somewhere in the Realplayer folder. Copied it and voila! The sweetest part was that the whole process took ~2mins. Geee...