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: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kam Leo
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:01 PM
> To: Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca; 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
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