** Changed in: evince Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208729
Title: can't open pdf when shared-mime-info is not installed Status in Evince: Invalid Status in evince package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evince-gtk On Ubuntu Hardy Beta Server Edition and Ubuntu 8.04.1, evince-gtk cannot open any pdf files. The error message it gives: Unable to open document Unhandled MIME type: “application/octet-stream” After installing shared-mime-info package the problem disappears. How to reproduce the bug: completely remove the shared-mime-info package in Synaptic than try to open any pdf file in Evince (evince- gtk). How to resolve this bug: add shared-mime-info as a dependecy of evince-gtk. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/208729/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp