Thanks for the quick reply, Maybe I was a little biased by what I thought previously of the problem, but what I am really trying to do is to make Firefox and Thunderbird know what to do with downloaded and attached files. Maybe this has nothing to do with mime.types.
Anyways, I have copied the Apache mime.types file and I have also seen that Firefox looks for the /etc/mailcap file. Do you think that would help? Or is there something else to look for? Regards, Felipe Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi, > > Am Samstag, 8. November 2008 16:23:18 schrieb Felipe Sá: > >> I have noticed that some applications (e.g. Firefox) look for the file >> /etc/mime.types to know what kind of application will be able to open >> their downloads. >> >> The package shared-mime-info provides an update-mime-database, but I >> have not found an application that would generate the /etc/mime.types >> file automatically. I have looked into Ubuntu packages and they use a >> specific program to do that. >> > If you have the Apache httpd daemon installed, you may find a mime.types > in /etc/apache. You could symlink this one. > > >> Is there a default procedure for the generation of this file in BLFS or >> people in general just get a template from the web? >> > Good question... > > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
