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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kOffice won't work - MIME problems
From:       "Ron O'Hara" <rono () sentuny ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-11-02 5:09:58
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I had a similar problem with KSpread  ... and fixed it by forcing the 
update...

Manually run 'kbuildsycoca' from a shell prompt and see if this helps.

Regards
Ron O'Hara


On Thursday 02 November 2000 20:52, Andrew Patterson wrote:
>Thanks for the quick reply!
>
>> I though this was now fixed and that the mime types are now
>> automatically installed and ksycoca is updated when you install a
>> koffice app or any other that has mime types assigned to it .  It wasn't
>> working a few weeks ago.
>
>I downloaded the kOffice source when I downloaded the KDE 2.0 source -
>in fact I grabbed them all from the same place (a mirror somewhere on
>the Eastcoast). I believe that was...somewhere on or about the 26th of
>October. Is there something more recent?
>
>> If you have problems, try manually deleting your
>>
>>            ~/.kde/share/config/ksycoca
>>
>> file and then reinstalling the koffice app.  Then start kde again.
>> ksococa will be automatically rebuilt when you restart kde and the mime
>> time should be registerd.  There is a command or script that will also
>> do this but I don't know what it is.  Manual deletion worked for me a
>> few weeks ago when koffice apps which were installed later didn't take.
>> If a koffice app can't find its native mime type, the library (part)
>> never gets loaded and the app won't start. However, this should be fixed
>> in 2.0 and recent cvs.
>
>Okay, I tried it but unfortunately the the error hasn't changed. Is
>there no way to manually edit the stupid native MimeType to make it
>happy?
>
>Wood Shavings!
>  - Andrew

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