Tim wrote:
I experienced the same problem recently while updating unstable (I've
been running unstable for a while; it's possible I accidentally
corrupted some file).
Anyway, I solved my problem by running apt-get install --reinstall
[all the programs Ron mentioned above]. All the programs were already
installed on the system except mimedecode (which, as Bruce mentioned,
doesn't directly solve the problem). That's the easy way to do it. I'm
pretty sure the reason it works is because one of the postinst scripts
rebuilds whatever file it was I lost. One interesting postinst runs
'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime'.
Good luck.
- Tim
Tim,
Did that acutally rebuild the database? I was told that the application responsible
is gone to better integrated different desktops.
bp