On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 14:23:27 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently reinstalled box running Etch amd64. However, evince no > longer works. It is my only gnome app; I don't usually have luck with > gnome but need it for this one application. When I ssh into the box > from a P-II with 64 MB ram, Kpdf keeps its image rendering in the > xserver which over-taxes the P-II whereas Evince keeps its memory to > itself, on the amd64. > > Evince itself opens OK, but when I open the file dialog with its default > filter of "All Documents", it doesn't see any. If I remove the filter > to "All Files", it sees the pdfs but when I select one to open, it pops > up an error: > > Unable to open document > Unhandled MIME type 'application/octet-stream' > > When I click on help, it opens the help browser (I have yelp installed), > but instead of getting help, it in turn opens gvim with the XML source: > /usr/share/gnome/help/evince/C > > > I'm assuming that this is the same problem: the help browser doesn't > know how to handle its own XML help files so opens gvim. > > Any ideas?
As far as I understand the MIME-handling business, you need /etc/mime.types (package mime-support) and/or /etc/mime-magic (gnome-libs-data) to ensure identification of the MIME type "application/pdf" (based on the "%PDF-" string at the start of the file). If you have these packages installed and it does not work then you might additionally need gnome-mime-data or shared-mime-info. (This is just a guess, though, based on the package descriptions.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
