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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MIME-type application/octet-stream missing on KDE 3
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:11:54
Message-Id: 4922326F.3060706@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MIME-type application/octet-stream missing on KDE 3 by Francisco Ares
1 Francisco Ares wrote:
2 > Hi, guys
3 >
4 > Suddenly, after an update (sorry, no idea on which packages were
5 > updated / upgraded / re-emerged) several (if not all) KDE 3.5 programs
6 > show a message box saying that the MIME type application/octet-stream
7 > could not be found.
8 >
9 > Any ideas on what happened and, most important, what can I do to
10 > correct this?
11 >
12 > Thanks a lot!!
13 > Francisco
14 > --
15 > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then
16 > you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and
17 > I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have
18 > two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
19
20 Well, I found this somewhat old post:
21
22 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/error-could-not-find-mime-type-applicationoctet-stream-529525/
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24
25 That said, I looked at the location described and I don't even have the
26 file that they are saying to edit. Is it possible that you have this
27 file and it is no longer needed after the update?
28
29 Just a thought.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] MIME-type application/octet-stream missing on KDE 3 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>