RE: Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads

[Nix, Robert P.]

Actually, mine points to the Helix plugin. How do you "disassociate" rpm from Helix?

Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads - Final Fix

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:32 -0600, Nix, Robert P. wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Kam Leo
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:01 PM
> To: [e-mail]; 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 **

Suppressing Real Player on RPM downloads - Final Fix

[Kam Leo]

On 12/3/05, Robert G. (Doc) Savage  wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:32 -0600, Nix, Robert P. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Kam Leo
> > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:01 PM
> > To: [e-mail]; 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:
> Close all Mozilla sessions.
> # cp /etc/mozpluggerrc /etc/mozpluggerrc.save
> Edit /etc/mozpluggerrc to remove this line
>   audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin: rpm: RealPlayer Plugin Metafile
> # mv /home/doc/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat /home/doc/pluginreg.dat.save
> Start Mozilla
> 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 **
>
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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