On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:32 -0600, Nix, Robert P. wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kam Leo > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:01 PM > To: Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads > > The fault lies in the obsolete association of rpm files with > RealPlayer. This association is provided by one of the multimedia > plugins (not Helix or Realplayer) for the web browser. You can find > out which plugin is at fault by typing "about:plugins" in Firefox's > address bar and looking for the application associate with rpm. > Actually, mine points to the Helix plugin. How do you "disassociate" rpm from Helix? When I searched the about:plugins page for 'rpm' I found: Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes Unfortunately nothing happened when I changed or commented out that line. Then I saw the fine print in the MozPlugger 1.7.1 heading on the about:plugins page directing me to 'man mozplugger'. There I found this: BUGS You have to remove ~/.netscape/plugin-list or ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat after changing the configuration, or nothing will happen. This is a Netscape/Mozilla bug, not a MozPlugger bug. Final Fix: 1. Close all Mozilla sessions. 2. # cp /etc/mozpluggerrc /etc/mozpluggerrc.save 3. Edit /etc/mozpluggerrc to remove this line audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin: rpm: RealPlayer Plugin Metafile 4. # mv /home/doc/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat /home/doc/pluginreg.dat.save 5. Start Mozilla 6. Confirm that about:config no longer contains a line with 'rpm'. This works even in cases where a simple right-click + save-as won't work because the download URL points to another web page. This is going into the Little Black Book I use whenever I do a from-scratch installation. Thanks to all.... -- Doc Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **
