Re: Funny action on "opening" a pdf document

[Theodore Kilgore <kilgota banach math auburn edu>]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Piotr Ozarowski wrote:

> [Theodore Kilgore, 2013-01-19]
> > OK. I can not do any more of this on the machine which is in the workplace 
> > right now, but I tried it at home on my Raspberry Pi which was having the 
> > same problem. It seems to fix the problem well enough.
>
> great
>
> > Some observations, both for you who apparently are connected with xdg-open 
> > and for the MC people:
>
> I'm just a xdg-open user
>
> > 1. The RPI is a little machine, with minimal resources. It is not expected 
> > to deal with mail, so there was no .mailcap file. No mail programs, not 
> > even client programs, and so nothing related was installed, either. Hence, 
> > the only way that was reasonable for creating a .mailcap file was to copy 
> > one over there. For similar reasons, there was no /etc/mime.types, either, 
> > and no .mime.types file in my user directory.
>
> On Debian, it is provided by mime-support package which is "Priority:
> standard" so you have to do some work to... not have this files
> installed by default.

Not all distros are identical. What you have, of course, is an indirect 
proof that I am not running Debian on the Raspberry Pi.

Thanks for the help.

Theodore Kilgore