as the bug was opened in 2008, fix was available with upstream evince 2.24 but in ubuntu evince 3.10.3 still is present, here the solution found out of launchpad:
sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.bin.evince sudo service apparmor restart -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210081 Title: evince will not launch external applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/210081/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
