post your "slocate mime.types" results.
this is the result of what happens on my linux installation
when the following command is typed into a terminal
slocate mime.types
also - terminals are "xterm" "konsole" "gnome-terminal" "aterm" "eterm"
/usr/man/man5/mime.types.5.gz
/usr/doc/tin-1.8.2/mime.types
/usr/doc/cups-1.2.11/help/man-mime.types.html
/usr/doc/pine4.64/mime.types
/usr/share/lynx/lynx_doc/samples/mime.types
/etc/cups/mime.types
/etc/mutt/mime.types
/etc/htdig/mime.types
/etc/httpd/mime.types
/etc/tin/mime.types
post your mime.types!
And the point is?
/etc/mime.types
/etc/cups/mime.types
/etc/htdig/mime.types
/home/dowdle/.mime.types
/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.9.1/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.4/help/man-mime.types.html
/usr/share/man/man5/mime.types.5.gz
post your, output from anything for comparison.
To see if the mime.types files exist commonly on linux distributions.
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Shouldn't be a mystery
Use your package management apps and see. My /etc/mime.types came from the mailcap package.
and yet it is.
just like I don't know why my ionic generating air filtering fan occasionally sings "fur elise" type nonsense.
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re: Post your "slocate mime.type" results
linux:~$ slocate mime.types
/etc/mime.types
/etc/cups/mime.types
/usr/share/man/man5/mime.types.5.gz
/usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/man-mime.types.html
Thomas
On an Old turn of the century, Dell Dimension 2100, with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon i386.