{"id":117,"date":"2008-02-22T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-07-11T04:16:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T04:16:34","slug":"evince-broken-unhandled-x-extension-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/evince-broken-unhandled-x-extension-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Evince broken: unhandled x-extension-pdf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Linux and the Gnome Desktop, Evince is the default application for viewing Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. Recently, it started giving me the message &#8220;Unhandled MIME type: &#8216;application\/x-extension-pdf'&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>1. Edit $HOME\/.local\/share\/mime\/packages\/Override.xml<br \/>\n2. Replace &#8220;application\/x-extension-pdf&#8221; with &#8220;application\/pdf&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Run &#8220;update-mime-database $HOME\/.local\/share\/mime&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Reportedly](http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/evince-list@gnome.org\/msg00485.html), a bug in the Nautilus file manager causes this behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Linux and the Gnome Desktop, Evince is the default application for viewing Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. Recently, it started giving me the message &#8220;Unhandled MIME type: &#8216;application\/x-extension-pdf&#8217;&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it. 1. Edit $HOME\/.local\/share\/mime\/packages\/Override.xml 2. Replace &#8220;application\/x-extension-pdf&#8221; with &#8220;application\/pdf&#8221; 3. Run &#8220;update-mime-database $HOME\/.local\/share\/mime&#8221; [Reportedly](http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/evince-list@gnome.org\/msg00485.html), a bug in the Nautilus file manager causes this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/evince-broken-unhandled-x-extension-pdf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evince broken: unhandled x-extension-pdf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}