On Friday 08 of June 2012 00:28:21 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> > > Fourth, is this distro-specific?  My system has neither update-mime nor
> > > /usr/lib/mime, suggesting that this utility is not universal.
> >
> > Yes, this is Debian-specific.
>
> Slackware has update-mime-database, which is why I asked for other apps
> besides Chromium to test the problem. If this is distro-specific perhaps we
> at least could share how to replicate and also resolve the problem, and
> which distros are/might be involved.
>
> Darrell
>

Specific for distribution may be a way of composing /etc/mailcap. But its 
meaning is common to all. It affects generally all programs that 
uses /etc/mailcap. For testing can be used (ie Debian) commands such as 
run-mailcap, see, print, compose,...

The truth is that the file location is apparently a matter of packaging == 
distribution specific. I just now looking into the packages and kpdf-trinity 
and kedit-trinity. That differ not only in the location:
 /usr/lib/mime × /opt/trinity/lib/mime, but also
 /usr/share/menu × /opt/trinity/share/menu,
 /usr/share/doc/kedit-trinity × /opt/trinity/share/doc/kpdf-trinity.

Obviously it is a mess. :)

Slavek
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