firefox and rpms

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Mon May 9 09:08:16 UTC 2005


john brennan wrote:

> hello everybody,
>                      I have a problem with firefox. Everytime I try to 
> download a rpm packet from the Internet Firefox reacts as if it is a 
> multimedia file (rpm= realplayer media) and I am totally blocked. 
> Example I wanted to download the rpm source for streamtuner and it 
> made as if it was going to play a clip. How do I get out of this one 
> please? I have looked in the Firefox menus but I have not found the 
> link which is responsable. Thanking you in advance, John Brennan-Sardou.
>
This happens because the server has incorrectly setup the MIME type. You 
can either use realplayer file association preferences if available of 
Applications=>Preferences=> file types and programs to change this. 
Realplayer does not use .rpm file extensions anymore

regards
Rahul




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