Rpm download

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:42, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:26, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 09:20, jim tate wrote:
>>>>> Downloading a rpm from the sight below, When I click on rpm to save
>>>>> in FC 6 all that happens it open a RealPlayer window , I can't even
>>>>> do a "Save link" that doesn't work either.
>>>>> This site is the only site I have had this problem with.
>>>>> What gives?
>>>>
>>>> The browsers all come configured for winderz syntaxes for some
>>>> reason, and that think an .rpm is a realplayer file of some sort. 
>>>> The cure is to right click on the url and chose the 'save as'
>>>> option.  Or find and fix the file associations which I haven't yet.
>>>>
>>>> Frankly, that really should be bugzilla'd, its a PITA.  But I'm too
>>>> lazy.
>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>
>>> /etc/mime.types?
>>
>> [root at coyote linux-2.6.19]# grep .rpm /etc/mime.types
>> application/x-rpm               rpm
>> #audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin    rpm
>>
>> but I think this ones in the browsers own prefs someplace I haven't
>> found.
>>
>> If this is the proper place to fix it, what should that be edited to
>> be?
>
>which has got me puzzled because about:config in FF shows
>helpers.global_mime_types_file uses /etc/mime.types
>
>how about
>browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk

Would that not save everything to disk?  Or is this just for the rpm 
association in the second column?

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