New KDE4 install - applications not running

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 30 June 2008 04:57:25 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have installed Mandriva 2008.1 with kde4 on two laptops.  This one, the
> > ancient one, is extremely slow, but rock-solid.  The Acer, that should
> > have been an improvement, won't run kontact, saying that it can't find
> > mime type application/octet-stream.
> >
> > What could have gone wrong?
>
> It is possible that it can't find it.  KDE no longer supplies that MIME
> type.  I found this out when I installed from SVN.
>
> For it to work for me, I had to install the XDG MIME package:
>
> 	shared-mime-info
>
> So, the question is what Mandriva did about this, and that is a distro
> question.

Thanks for answering.  I don't know what has happened, but the whole of KDE4 
seems to be a mess on the Acer, and I've gone back to KDE3 there.  I'll have 
another go at sorting it out when I have a little more time.   The ancient 
Packard Bell laptop soldiers on, producing a rock-steady KDE 4 as long as I 
only ask it to do one thing at once, but what can you expect from a 700 MHz 
Duron and 256MB RAM?

Anne
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