On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:04 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > I made the mistake of installing adobe's latest acroread on F8. Now, there > is no mime type for pdf: > > xdg-mime query filetype *.pdf > application/octet-stream > > xdg-mime query default application/x-pdf > xdg-mime query default application/pdf > > System never heard of this mime type anymore. > > How do I fix this? That is strange. I also installed acroread from Adobe as an rpm. However on my machine: xdg-mime query filetype *.pdf application/pdf -- ======================================================================= The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. -- Robert M. Hutchins ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx