From: "Aaron McDonald" <wmcdona89@hotmail.com>
To: community-en@altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:00:18 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY9-F187E9D9E73ED1CC181D650B35F0@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110170848.16158.15.camel@siver.home>
Yuri, thanks for the advice on this. I took a look at an old Alt Linux 2.2
installation I still have and I found that it didn't have the update-mime
command either. It then occurred to me that maybe the .mailcap file isn't
created or updated when a package is installed, but rather when a program is
run. I deleted the OpenOffice.org entries from my .mailcap file and sure
enough, after running OpenOffice.org, the MIME definitions were restored.
So, I guess both my questions are answered.
Thanks,
Aaron
>From: "Yuri N. Sedunov" <aris@altlinux.ru>
>Reply-To: "Mailing list for ALT Linux users (in English only)"
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>To: "Mailing list for ALT Linux users (in English only)"
<community-en@altlinux.org>
>Subject: Re: [Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox
>Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:47:28 +0300
>
>÷ ÷ÓË, 06/03/2005 × 20:33 -0500, Aaron McDonald ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> > Did Alt Linux recently discontinue use of the update-mime command?
>From what
> > I can tell, this program is used to update mailcap files.
> >
> > Here's a little background as to why I'm asking the question:
> > After much investigation and research today I discovered that some
of the
> > default applications that Firefox is using are from the .mailcap
file in my
> > home directory. This file was last modified on Dec. 31st 2004 and
it
> > contains useful MIME definitions for OpenOffice.org. If I remove
this file,
> > Firefox no longer has these MIME definitions. The
update-desktop-database
> > command creates /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which
Firefox also
> > uses, but this file doesn't contain any of the OpenOffice.org
definitions.
> >
> > So, my questions are:
> > Where did my .mailcap file come from?
> > and
> > What OpenOffice.org files need to be moved to
/usr/share/applications/ so
> > that the OpenOffice.org definitions are in mimeinfo.cache?
> >
>
>Standard .desktop files need to be placed in /usr/share/applications,
>but now openoffice.org package doesn't provides standard .desktop files
>in the standard location, this is a bug.
>As a workaround You may put attached files:
>openoffice-calc.desktop
>openoffice-draw.desktop
>openoffice-impress.desktop
>openoffice-math.desktop
>openoffice-writer.desktop
>to /usr/share/applications and run update-desktop-database as root.
>
>--
>Yuri N. Sedunov
>03/07/05 07:24:54
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2005-03-07 1:33 Aaron McDonald
2005-03-07 4:47 ` Yuri N. Sedunov
2005-03-07 6:00 ` Aaron McDonald [this message]
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