shared-mime-info

Karmic recently upgraded the package shared-mime-info from 0.60-2 to 0.70-0ubuntu1. This package recognises the filetype of each file, so Gnome knows which program to open them with…

The problem is that after the upgrade, the mime database is messed up. The way to fix this is to run sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

~ by azimout on October 7, 2009.