[nmglug] oops! evince

[BrianO'Keefe]

forgot the stuff!  Brian

I have been working on this for hours and haven't gotten anywhere. I
have Hardy installed on my G3Powerbook and evince works fine. On my G4
TiBook it won't open pdf's but it does open ps docs. I checked my
.local/share/mime directory on the G4 and there is nothing in there that
refers to either ps or pdf. The G3 has a mimeapps.list in
.local/share/applications file with:
[QUOTE][Added Associations]
application/pdf=userapp-evince-O6PU8T.desktop;
application/x-shockwave-flash=userapp-gnash-HWEXEU.desktop;
application/vnd.rn-realmedia=totem-gstreamer.desktop;mplayer.desktop;[/QUOTE]

Whereas the G4 only has:
[QUOTE][Added Associations]
application/octet-stream=userapp-gedit-VZ2AFU.desktop;[/QUOTE]

There are mime files in /etc/mime.types that refer to:
[QUOTE]application/pdf                    pdf
application/pgp-encrypted
application/pgp-keys                key
application/pgp-signature            pgp
application/pics-rules                prf
application/pkcs10
application/pkcs7-mime
application/pkcs7-signature
application/pkix-cert
application/pkix-crl
application/pkixcmp
application/postscript                ps ai eps[/QUOTE]

among many others.

Also have:
/usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml and
/usr/share/mime/application/postscript.xml

The /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml has:
[CODE]<mime-type type="application/pdf">
−
<!--
Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!
-->
<comment>PDF document</comment>
<comment xml:lang="bg">Документ — PDF</comment>

<snip>

<acronym>PDF</acronym>
<expanded-acronym>Portable Document Format</expanded-acronym>
<alias type="application/x-pdf"/>
<alias type="image/pdf"/>
</mime-type>[/CODE]

A couple of ideas are that the .local/share files on the G4 have the
wrong or missing files or,
the reference in /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml to:
[CODE]<alias type="application/x-pdf"/>[/CODE]
is wrong. I read something similar on this post:
http://markmail.org/message/vlvrn3uf5mnlncvv
I guess I'm thinking that there is a configuration or link problem but
have no idea how to resolve it. I tried copying my .local/share file
from the G3 to the G4 and that doesn't work nor does copying any of the
other files.
I also tried moving the .local/share and seeing if evince would generate
another but it won't run at all.

Bottom line is that if 2 completely updated Hardy installs on 2 ppc
boxes can't both run evince, I don't think this is a bug.