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acroread package

  1. Bug #482533
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 482533

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danmb (danmbox) wrote : Re: Karmic acroread does not become the default PDF handler for email even after answering "Yes" to the debconf question

This is still the case in Lucid. Google Chrome uses xdg-open, which in turn relies on /etc/mailcap, which doesn't know about acroread.

Please include /usr/lib/mime/packages/acroread.

Workaround: create the file manually, it should read

application/pdf; /usr/bin/acroread '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf; priority=7

Then run sudo update-mime. You may also wish to also edit /etc/mailcap.order