Re: [SLE] Associating an Application (Gnome)

From: Donald Henson (wepin_at_wepin.com)
Date: 12/05/03

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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:46:41 -0700

    On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:52, James Ogley wrote:

    > > During an APT Gnumeric package update, something went wrong. The problem
    > > has been corrected but in the process, gnome lost track of the file
    > > association. I want the file associated with Gnumeric. I can get all the
    > > way to the Edit File Type dialog box but I can't complete the
    > > association unless I enter a MIME type. This confuses me some since
    > > there is a MIME type there already (zz-winassoc-xls). Can anyone offer
    > > any suggestions on how I can get Gnumeric files associated with MS Excel
    > > files? Thanks for any help.
    >
    > On my machine, the MIME type for Excel is application/vnd.ms-excel
    >
    > What went wrong, was it a problem with the package?

    I'm not sure what went wrong. Synaptic downloaded the appropriate files
    and then started installing them. I let it run for about an hour while
    the only activity was the hour-glass symbol. If I moved another window
    on top of the Synaptic windows, the windows did not refresh (stayed
    blank) when they reappeared. When I finally decided that something was
    wrong, I discovered that I couldn't close Synaptic using the Close
    button nor the window close box. I logged out and logged back in. This
    closed Synaptic but when I tried to use Synaptic again, it said that it
    could not obtain a lock on the packages directory. Coming from the MS
    Windows environment, I decided to try the standard Windows
    troubleshooting technique (I rebooted the system). This seemed to work.
    I can now use Synaptic. I can open Gnumeric which opens with the correct
    version (1.2.2). I can save the gnumeric file and it shows up with the
    correct icon and if I click on the icon, gnumeric loads and opens the
    file. The only thing that's not working at the moment is that there is
    no icon (well, the default gear wheel icon) for MS Excel files and if I
    click on the icon, nothing happens. If I try to "open with", there's no
    applications listed. If I try to associate an application, it either
    tells me to enter a MIME type or it disappears without changing
    anything. Any thoughts?

    Don Henson

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