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unity-place-files package

  1. Bug #751374
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 751374

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PhobosK (phobosk) wrote :

To all others that run across this bug:

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SOLUTIONS FOR THIS BUG
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There are 3 basic possible solutions for you... I list them from preferred to less preferred:

NOTE: All solutions need you first to REMOVE any exo entry in your '~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list' file. Do that as an user (NOT as root) by:
               1. grep 'exo' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
               2. open the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list in a text editor and manually remove all entries found by (1),
                   save the file
               3. update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

THEN select ONE of the following options:

1. Update your repos and update the exo-utils package (this solution will ONLY work when the proposed fix hits the repos, so at the time of this writing it is not available and not working!)

2. Add my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~phobosk/+archive/phobosk-ppa) to your repos, update them and update exo-utils package

3. AS ROOT edit the affected .desktop files by running:
          sed -i -e 's/^MimeType=/X-XFCE-MimeType=/' \
                         /usr/share/applications/exo-file-manager.desktop \
                         /usr/share/applications/exo-mail-reader.desktop \
                        /usr/share/applications/exo-web-browser.desktop

         update-desktop-database

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And you should get rid of this bug...