So I poke around the ubuntuforums.org forums for a while and invariably takes me 15 minutes to find a post about what I remember as being a very easy process, but can’t recall the steps.

Well here they are for Karmic:

1) In Software Sources add the “partner” repositories and let the package manager update

2) In a terminal, run “sudo apt-get install adobereader-enu”

3) Open your PDF’s in Firefox again.

Really Ubuntu is getting quite good. 9.10 is the best yet, although it seems there is always some stupid regression to get around.

For me this is mount points that use fuse. Nautilus tries to automagically detect these mount points and add bookmarks in the left menu. Problem is when I’ve used a script and fstab to automatically mount these points when the network comes up, there’s now 2 entries in the Nautilus menu, and the auto-generated one pops an error whenever you click on it that fuse cannot mount that point as there is already something mounted there. *GRRR* But I haven’t poked around for a fix yet. Both the desktop and laptop do it though, so I don’t think it’s too obscure an issue. But again, this worked perfectly in Jaunty (9.04)….why the regression? The overall system doesn’t improve if you make progress in one place, just to fall behind somewhere else.