what is wrong with my konqueror/kmail settings?

[Donatas G.]

On Friday 18 January 2008 15:40:23 Derek Broughton rašė:
> Donatas G. wrote:
> > On Friday 18 January 2008 13:16:06 Daniel Pittman rašė:
> >> "Donatas G." <dgvirtual at akl.lt> writes:
> >> > when I click a link with a deb, like this one, in my mail (kmail)
> >> > window:
> >> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward_0.4.9gutsy1-1_i386.deb
> >> >
> >> > I get the binary file opened within Konqueror window with this warning
> >> > message popping up:
> >> >
> >> > The file
> >> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward_0.4.9gutsy1-1_i386.deb is a
> >> > binary, saving it will result in a corrupt file.
> >> >
> >> > All I intend is to get the file to download...
> >> >
> >> > Could somebody explain, what is wrong with my settings?
> >>
> >> Nothing; the server is wrong:
>
> Yes (maybe) and no.
>
> >> it tells the web browser that file
> >> contains plain text, not binary data.  As a result Konqueror does the
> >> right thing and displays it -- but warns you about the problem.
>
> Yes, the server should report it as application/x-deb mimetype, but
> konqueror is quite capable of handling files without proper mimetypes based
> on file suffix.  I'm not sure this wasn't reported properly - my network's
> too slow to want to check; what I can see is that my own mirror has no
> definition for application/x-deb, but konqueror still treats them a such.
> Unfortunately, Kubuntu doesn't automatically come with a way to handle
> packages from the web but you can always install gdebi-kde to fix it.

You can try to start downloading that package - it is less than one mb 
anyway..

Should I check file associations to troubleshoot? I have gdebi-kde installed, 
and *.deb is associated with: gdebi, then - ark, then - karchiver, and the 
embedding options are: "use settings for 'applications' group" (other options 
are: "show file in embedded viewer" and "show file in separate viewer") and 
the checkbox "ask whether to save to disk instead" is also checked.

The package is still displayed in konqueror (unless it is on a local file 
system).

-- 
Donatas Glodenis
http://dg.lapas.info