Preferred Applications not listing installed application

[Franz]

After installing the preferred media player "mpv Media Player", it is not offered as a choice in Preferred Applications, only Celluloid.

I can use mpv Media Player with "Open with ..." on any A/V file, but it only opens with Celluloid on dble click, even as Celluloid doesn't list in Applications> Sound & Video menu.

Several re-boots have not changed anything.

Ubuntu-mate 21.10

Franz

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

I can't reproduce this on fresh Ubuntu MATE 21.10 install.
Please reinstall both applications using

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mpv celluloid
update-menus

Then retry and if error persists - put the contents of `~/.config/mimeapps.list` file along with output of `apt-cache policy mpv celluloid` to next comment.

[Franz (franz-j)]

Norbert

I have re-installed as recommended - but without success.

The requested file outputs are in the attachment.

Thank you v much
Franz

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Output of

apt-cache policy mpv celluloid

seems to be corrupt, please execute above command again.

[Franz (franz-j)]

zylmurbafi@lanbox:~$ apt-cache policy mpv celluloid
mpv:
  Installed: 0.33.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.33.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.33.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
celluloid:
  Installed: 0.20-2
  Candidate: 0.20-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.20-2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
zylmurbafi@lanbox:~$

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

I do not see any bug-related behavior here.
Please post your problem to https://ubuntu-mate.community to find help.

[Franz (franz-j)]

Thankyou, Norbert.

I have re-installed Impish since I discovered a large number of broken packages showing on Synaptic.

All is well now, and I assume that the original install became corrupted.
Franz