> Anyway, the main trouble seems to be that the Debian-1.2 /etc/mailcap has > grown to a rather ridiculous size as compared to the version provided with > Debian-1.1.xx: > ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------ > [root]/root > v /etc/mailcap* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 320596 Dec 24 04:12 /etc/mailcap > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 502 Nov 30 13:41 /etc/mailcap.bak > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 841 Dec 3 17:59 /etc/mailcap.dpkg-dist > ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------
I've seen one other case of this. It happened because the /etc/mailcap was not in the proper format. The latest mime-support package v2.09 (probably only in "bo") checks for this problem but older ones didn't. I suggest you remove the /etc/mailcap file and reinstall the "mime-support" package. > Well, trying to deinstall the mime-support for apparent reasons i just get > *lots* of dependancy conflicts making it impossible to do without this > thing. Here the relevant lines from the dselect dialog: > ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------ > pine depends on mime-support > apache depends on mime-support > xpdf depends on mime-support (>= 2.01-1) > metamail depends on mime-support (>= 2.02-1) > lynx recommends mime-support > xanim depends on mime-support (>= 2.08) > ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------ None of these are technically supposed to depend on mime-support. They should only test for its availability before calling the "install-mime" program. This is documented in the "install-mime" man page. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]