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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Upgrade to Quanta Plus 3.5.9 broken: no mime types,
From:       Michael Friendly <friendly () yorku ! ca>
Date:       2009-02-26 22:56:50
Message-ID: 49A71E32.9080200 () yorku ! ca
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Ugh - I forgot the restart bit!  Now all seems OK.  Thanks VM for
your help.
-Michael

Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Quanta uses mime types defined in KDE, so it sounds like your KDE 
> install might be broken.
> 
> To check this the best method is to try loading the document in Kate and 
> see if it works with Kate.
> If Kate handles the file fine, then KDE should be fine, and Quanta is at 
> fault, if Kate causes the errors, the problems are with KDE/Kate not 
> having the correct data.
> Also, after the upgrade you did restart KDE? - usually logging out and 
> logging back in would do this, a full restart would not be needed.
> 
> Also you probably should be running Quanta 3.5.10 if running KDE 3.5.10 
> - not that it hurts, but it does seem strange that your distro would not 
> be providing the same versions.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Lowe
>    System Administrator & Programmer
>        Information Technology
>            Manildra Group
> 
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> On 2009-02-27, at 24:39 , Michael Friendly wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I just started using Quanta Plus on debian linux and really like it.  My
>> previous version was quite out of date,
>> so I decided to update it [to 3.5.9, using KDE 3.5.10]
>>
>> sudo apt-get install quanta
>>
>> Evidently, there were a lot of out-of-date dependencies on my system,
>> because apt installed over 300 packages.
>> When it finally finished I ran
>>
>> quanta index.html
>>
>> A series of pop-up messages said:
>> Could not find mime type application/octet stream
>> No mime types installed
>> ...
>> Could not load toolbars from archive
>> Check that filenames in archive begin with the archive name
>>
>> It finally opened, but did not load my file.
>>
>> What's wrong, & how can I diagnose/fix this problem?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -Michael
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
>> Professor, Psychology Dept.
>> York University      Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
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>>
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Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
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York University      Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
4700 Keele Street    http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html
Toronto, ONT  M3J 1P3 CANADA

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