On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:52, James Ogley wrote:
During an APT Gnumeric package update, something went wrong. The problem has been corrected but in the process, gnome lost track of the file association. I want the file associated with Gnumeric. I can get all the way to the Edit File Type dialog box but I can't complete the association unless I enter a MIME type. This confuses me some since there is a MIME type there already (zz-winassoc-xls). Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I can get Gnumeric files associated with MS Excel files? Thanks for any help.
On my machine, the MIME type for Excel is application/vnd.ms-excel
What went wrong, was it a problem with the package?
I'm not sure what went wrong. Synaptic downloaded the appropriate files and then started installing them. I let it run for about an hour while the only activity was the hour-glass symbol. If I moved another window on top of the Synaptic windows, the windows did not refresh (stayed blank) when they reappeared. When I finally decided that something was wrong, I discovered that I couldn't close Synaptic using the Close button nor the window close box. I logged out and logged back in. This closed Synaptic but when I tried to use Synaptic again, it said that it could not obtain a lock on the packages directory. Coming from the MS Windows environment, I decided to try the standard Windows troubleshooting technique (I rebooted the system). This seemed to work. I can now use Synaptic. I can open Gnumeric which opens with the correct version (1.2.2). I can save the gnumeric file and it shows up with the correct icon and if I click on the icon, gnumeric loads and opens the file. The only thing that's not working at the moment is that there is no icon (well, the default gear wheel icon) for MS Excel files and if I click on the icon, nothing happens. If I try to "open with", there's no applications listed. If I try to associate an application, it either tells me to enter a MIME type or it disappears without changing anything. Any thoughts? Don Henson