Re: kdelibs 4.1 - qt 4.4.1 - dbus nightmare

Hi,

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, René Rebe <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >
> > so, I got KDE-4.1 all build on my notebook, however not many programs works,
> > most complain about missing / unknown MIME types.
> >
> > konqueror: shows a dialog for any URL asking what to use to "Open With...",
> > clicking on "Open With..." shows an Error: Could not find mime type
> > "application/octet-stream"
> >
> > okular: has the nearly same hehaviour, ...
> >
> > Google did not bring up much, anyone any idea what kde-4.x needs to get MIME
> > types and it's components right?
> >     
>
> I had the same when I built KDE4 on OSX. What was it, hmm, I can check
> on friday.
> The problem is that the shared-mime-info package doesn't find the
> files installed by KDE. This can be fixed by setting the appropriate
> shared-mime-info environment variable and then running some
> shared-mime-info tool, I think it was update-mime-database .
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
>   
Ah yes, indeed! It was even me adding a sared-mime-info postinstall
some year ago:

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r8634 | rene | 2005-05-02 20:55:50 +0200 (Mon, 02 May 2005) | 2 lines

       * added a shared-mime-info.postinstall

Guess we need some way to automate it for "from source builds" and not
only for "binary build" installs ...

Yours,

--
 René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
 http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name



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