On 7 Jun 2012, Darrell Anderson outgrape:

>> > 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.

update-mime-database is a completely different tool, part of upstream
shared-mime-info. (Yes, I know the names are very confusing.)

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