Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <penguinista.frisiana144@xxxxxxxxxx>]

mikus wrote:
> What was happening was that someplace had identified the .rpm file 
> I was accessing as MIME-Type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin !!  And,
> although the system had RealAudio installed, it told me it did __not__
> have the resources to handle a file of that type.  Two questions:
> 
>  1)  If the RealAudio package is installed, does that install
>      the RealAudio *plugin* as well ?  If not, what needs to
>      be done to have the system accept data that is CORRECTLY
>      identified as MIME-Type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin ?

AFAIK, a plugin for RealAudio is not needed.
You can instruct the browser to use /usr/local/bin/realplay (or wherever
realplay may be located) to play the file with this MIME-Type.

In Mozilla: Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Helper Applications...

In Konqueror: Settings > Configure Konqueror > File Associations...

>  2)  If a file to be downloaded is identified with the WRONG
>      MIME-Type, can the download process be simply instructed
>      "download it to disk -- ignore the MIME-Type" ?

In the same way as above the browser can be instructed to save an rpm
file, for example, to disk.
But right clicking the link and 'Save link target as...' also works.

S.H.