On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:09:09 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > 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'
[...] > > 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). I just ran strace on evince and opened a PDF file. The only "magic" files which evince tried to access were ~/.local/share/mime/magic and /usr/local/share/mime/magic (neither of which is present on my system). Maybe you can generate one of these two files to make evince recognize the PDFs. I have no idea about the required format, therefore I would simply try to use what I see in /usr/share/mime/magic: $ grep -aA1 pdf /usr/share/mime/magic [60:application/pdf] >0=%PDF- There are two non-printing bytes hidden in grep's output above, between the "=" and the "%" sign in the second line: $ grep -aA1 pdf /usr/share/mime/magic | hd -C 00000000 5b 36 30 3a 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 2f |[60:application/| 00000010 70 64 66 5d 0a 3e 30 3d 00 05 25 50 44 46 2d 0a |pdf].>0=..%PDF-.| 00000020 > 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. Does it help if you run update-mime or update-mime-database manually? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
