Re: OpenOffice 3.2 and mime-types

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Sam Morris schreef:
> On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:10:38 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with opening files in Nautilus. Normally OOo would open
>> the document when I click on a .odt or .doc file, but not with the OOo
>> backport in Lenny.
>>
>> Using it in Squeeze does not give a problem.
>>
>> What could be wrong?
>>
>> With regards,
>> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> The package in unstable relies on a dpkg trigger to update the desktop 
> database (or was it the shared mime info database? I can't remember)... 
> but the dpkg in stable does not have this feature.
> 
> Running either 'update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications' or 
> 'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime' fixes the problem.

I've tried the first one, and it works great.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




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