Default action on .odt files

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 06:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 
> >>> Unfortunately, "I loaded it on my system and it works just fine,"
> >>> doesn't help much at all.
> >> Possibly because you are both using different spins. If you want to 
> >> discuss issues in Fedora 7 test releases it is important to specify 
> >> which spin you are using. The behavior is different between them 
> >> depending on which applications are included.
> > 
> > Good point! I hadn't considered this. Indeed, both of the systems I have
> > were loaded from the Fedora installation DVD as opposed to the live CD.
> > Both also were updated immediately with the Rawhide patches and I
> > installed my usual list of add-ons that I tend to include with previous
> > versions of Fedora. That includes:
> > 
> > Adobe Reader (with Remi's patch - it's still apparently needed)
> > Sun Java JRE (a couple of websites I frequent seem to want it in spite
> > of anything else)
> > Flash Plugin
> > 
> > Could Sun's Java RPM be causing this? It doesn't on FC6 and I didn't try
> > on F7T4 before installing it.
> 
> Very unlikely. I would suggest not using packages outside the standard 
> repository while testing. Some of them create problems that are not 
> reversed even when you uninstall them and makes debugging harder.

The Sun Java JRE package *is* the cause of this -- you can, for example,
remove /usr/share/mime/packages/x-java-* (or demote the priorities in
those files) to keep this from happening.  The file magic match is
essentially matching any ZIP compressed archive as it's installed out of
the box.

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