On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 14:23:27 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > 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. > > 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.) >
Thanks Florian. I have everything except gnome-libs-data (since it brings in all the rest of gnome including gnome-bin). If I have to install the whole GNOME DTE just to use Evince, I chalk it up to typical Gnome stupidity and scrapt the whole thing. The thing is, my installed packages are exactly the same as before I reinstalled. The only difference is that 4.0r1 came out while I was in the midst of the multi-day downloading (dialup) so some of the packages will be newer versions. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
