Re: Upgrade to Quanta Plus 3.5.9 broken: no mime types, no toolbars
Michael Friendly <[email protected]>
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Ugh - I forgot the restart bit! Now all seems OK. Thanks VM for your help. -Michael Andrew Lowe wrote: > Quanta uses mime types defined in KDE, so it sounds like your KDE > install might be broken. > > To check this the best method is to try loading the document in Kate and > see if it works with Kate. > If Kate handles the file fine, then KDE should be fine, and Quanta is at > fault, if Kate causes the errors, the problems are with KDE/Kate not > having the correct data. > Also, after the upgrade you did restart KDE? - usually logging out and > logging back in would do this, a full restart would not be needed. > > Also you probably should be running Quanta 3.5.10 if running KDE 3.5.10 > - not that it hurts, but it does seem strange that your distro would not > be providing the same versions. > > > -- > Andrew Lowe > System Administrator & Programmer > Information Technology > Manildra Group > > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Phone: 02 4423 8270 > Mobile: 0413 23 8270 > Fax: 02 4421 7760 > > On 2009-02-27, at 24:39 , Michael Friendly wrote: > >> Hi >> I just started using Quanta Plus on debian linux and really like it. My >> previous version was quite out of date, >> so I decided to update it [to 3.5.9, using KDE 3.5.10] >> >> sudo apt-get install quanta >> >> Evidently, there were a lot of out-of-date dependencies on my system, >> because apt installed over 300 packages. >> When it finally finished I ran >> >> quanta index.html >> >> A series of pop-up messages said: >> Could not find mime type application/octet stream >> No mime types installed >> ... >> Could not load toolbars from archive >> Check that filenames in archive begin with the archive name >> >> It finally opened, but did not load my file. >> >> What's wrong, & how can I diagnose/fix this problem? >> >> thanks, >> -Michael >> >> -- >> Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca >> Professor, Psychology Dept. >> York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 >> 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html >> Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Quanta mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Quanta mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA