From koffice  Wed Nov 01 14:50:01 2000
From: Andrew Patterson <andrew () blackecho ! net>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:50:01 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: kOffice won't work - MIME problems
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Hello all,

I've tried (in vain) to get kOffice up and running on
my newly installed KDE2 system. It compiled (no rpms for
RH6.2 :( ) and installed without complaint 
(in /usr/local/koffice). I've setup KDEHOME, KDEDIR & 
KDEDIRS to all point to the right place. But regardless 
of the kOffice app I fire up, I get the same error:

koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Office/kword.desktop: no 
X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry!
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native 
MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation !   

Of likely interest: the install didn't put *anything* in my
KDEHOME directory that I could determine; it took me a while
to decipher exactly what it was complaining about when it
said it couldn't find it's "desktop file". I copied the 
desktop files and most other things I could find from
.../koffice/share/ into my home directory, but thigns still
ain't working.

I've also trolled the archives where I found some similar
posts to mine but the solutions (using kbuildsycoca with
and/or without --incremental) didn't do anything for me.

Any help _greatly_ appreciated!

Wood Shavings!
  - Andrew