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Offline killerbot

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file type associations hell
« on: January 18, 2021, 05:38:39 pm »
och boy, on latest OpenSuse Leap 15.2, kde

for some reason each time dolphin (or for that matter settings file type associations) does not register it to the system, meaning I am unable to get :
*.cbp
*.workspace
registered.
Fighting with it for some time now, anyone out here with some suggestions or solutions ?

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Re: file type associations hell
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2021, 08:02:47 pm »
You're at the mercy of the .desktop files. :(
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Re: file type associations hell
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2021, 04:44:37 pm »
solved it, so the sudo make install, must have placed a codeblocks.xml in : /usr/local/share/mime/packages/

so far so good, but the process of installation did not issue an update request for the mime database, so all what needed to be done was :

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sudo update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime

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Re: file type associations hell
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2021, 07:56:58 pm »
Moral of the story: Just never use "sudo make install". Learn how to make packages it is way more reliable. :)
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Re: file type associations hell
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2021, 10:48:20 pm »
creating a package when building the software locally for the system, isn't that a bit of a detour ?

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Re: file type associations hell
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2021, 01:08:03 am »
Only the first time. After that it is a win, because you're not worried about missing/messing steps and then trying to debug what went wrong.
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