pcmanfm File association support does not work

This bug affects me too. In my case all the files are seen as application/octet-stream type. Also if I associate a file to be by a default programs all the other files (just because all files are seen as "unknown octet stream") will be associated with that program. For example if I associate a pdf to be opened with epdfviewer also .odt .avi .mp3 etc will be open with epdfviewer.

this seems to be due to incompatibility with latest shared-mime-info:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16760
and it also seems to have been fixed in latest svn version of pcmanfm. i think the importance is rather high, as it makes the manager pretty much useless. roxterm makes for a better file browser right now, and i'm no terminal geek.

It seems the same as bug #243378

Solved compiling pcmanfm 0.5.2

I have made a package in case anyone is interested:
http://www.2shared.com/file/8810097/8692f477/pcmanfm_052-1_i386.html

Thanks Riccardo Masala. It's works.

Same problem here, but on 64 bit.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/pcmanfm

these packages work great for me.

looks like whoever built the ubuntu packages didn't add these lines to the post init scripts:

  update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
  update-desktop-database

i could be mistaken though.

Lucid package seems to work for me http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/pcmanfm

the fixed version is available in Lucid, a SRU is now needed for Karmic.

A fixed package is avalable in my PPA : https://edge.launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive/unstable/+packages

Please test it and report back any problem you have with this. If the tests are good, I'll propose it for inclusion in official repository.

Thanks.

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Julien Lavergne <email address hidden>

@Julien Lavergne: after 10 days your 0.5.1 package seems to works well on Karmic.

Thanks elrond, I'll proceed with the SRU.

Attached debdiff for SRU.

Any news for this SRU ? Is there anything missing to proceed it ?

@Julien Lavergne
I'm using your package for a couple of weeks on my eeePC and everything works fine. Many thanks for your work!

The lucid package works perfectly (so far) ;-)

@Julien Lavergne
I confirm it too: it works on karmic. Thank you.

@Julien Lavergne, thanks a lot, having the antivirus lauched every time i clicked a file was making me mad! :D second day with your ppa package and works like a charm

Some previews won't appear yet but will open the right way when clicked, thanks again pal...

Dear all,

Currently running Ubuntu Karmic - upgraded from 9.04 las friday, and I have been attempting to get the mime types to work again, so for anyone else out there who has just upgraded and wants to get this rather annoying issue fixed here is what I did.

download an 'old' version of pcmanfm that works, here is a link

http://www.2shared.com/file/8810097/8692f477/pcmanfm_052-1_i386.html

then once downloaded use
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sudo dpkg -i pcmanfm_052-1_i386.deb
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to install it, then log out then log back in, and now the mime types are back.

Thanks to lazarev on the ubuntu forums who put up this solution which worked for me (here is the thread.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1301208 )

At the top of this page it says that a fix has been implemented, and the SRU was created by Julien (back in December 2009). However either it seems not to have been added to karmic for upgrades or as an update - at least the upgrade lost all the mime type associations when I did it last week (15 october 2010).

I hope the above can help someone else out.

As always thanks go to the Ubuntu and Debian guys for creating a highly usable, stable linux system.

David

Karmic has long since stopped to receive any updates. Marking the Karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".