How to fix mime filetype

[Neal Becker]

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 ?