On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 11:23 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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 > > AdobeReader_enu.i486 0:8.1.2-1 ? That the same version I have installed. However, I made a mistake. What I did above was actually done on a f7 machine. If I execute the command on a f8 machine I get the error that *.pdf does not exist. Unless I am in a directory that has at least one .pdf file then the result is: application/pdf > -- ======================================================================= "Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'." --John Sladek ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
