On 12/3/05, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ** > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > If you have the mplayer-plug-in installed just go to the plugins directory, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and mv mplayerplug-in-rm.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so.sav
