lievendp
October 5th, 2012, 07:42 PM
Dear,
Something went wrong in my installation from ubuntu mini and now it seems that my mime types are all wrong by some applications.
for example:
I do have a pdf and when I use "file document.pdf" it shows correctly "PDF document, version 1.4"
However, when I look at the file in pcmanfc a lightweight filemanager, it shows "text/plain" or even "application/octet-stream" for what "file" shows correctly as pdf, even firefox can open the pdf cleanly.
this is a fluxbox environment however I don't think that really matters for the mime types db.
the following are installed:
root@babayaga:~# dpkg --list | grep -i mime
ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.15-2 Perl module to determine file types
ii mime-support 3.51-1ubuntu1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and support programs
ii shared-mime-info 1.0-0ubuntu4.1 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spec
I tried this: "root@babayaga:~# update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" and after a few seconds, this is finished but still not resolved.
Also tried to dpkg-reconfigure shared-mime-info and mime-support but to no avail, they don't want user interaction?
How can I fix these apps? Do I need some other package that makes pcmanfc and evince recognize mimetypes just as "file" does?
thanks!
Something went wrong in my installation from ubuntu mini and now it seems that my mime types are all wrong by some applications.
for example:
I do have a pdf and when I use "file document.pdf" it shows correctly "PDF document, version 1.4"
However, when I look at the file in pcmanfc a lightweight filemanager, it shows "text/plain" or even "application/octet-stream" for what "file" shows correctly as pdf, even firefox can open the pdf cleanly.
this is a fluxbox environment however I don't think that really matters for the mime types db.
the following are installed:
root@babayaga:~# dpkg --list | grep -i mime
ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.15-2 Perl module to determine file types
ii mime-support 3.51-1ubuntu1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and support programs
ii shared-mime-info 1.0-0ubuntu4.1 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spec
I tried this: "root@babayaga:~# update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" and after a few seconds, this is finished but still not resolved.
Also tried to dpkg-reconfigure shared-mime-info and mime-support but to no avail, they don't want user interaction?
How can I fix these apps? Do I need some other package that makes pcmanfc and evince recognize mimetypes just as "file" does?
thanks!