Fuzzy Logic

I really like Adobe AIR as a platform, mainly because I generally like the idea of having a platform that can run the same apps on any of the big three Operating Systems (Windows, Mac, Linux).  Unfortunately, after installing the Adobe Air alpha for Linux I was having a problem with an error every time I started up Filezilla.  This would popup on every startup:

"Can't open /usr/share/mime-info/air.keys" (error 2: no such file or directory)"
"Can't open /usr/share/mime-info/air.mime" (error 2: no such file or directory)"

Obviously, this wasn’t the worst thing that could possibly happen to me… but it was rather aggravating!  To solve this problem I went scrounging through the depths of the interblags and finally managed to fix it.  Lots of help comes from the Dusty Pixels blog, but I figured I would compile what worked for me here.

I will copy in these codes directly as I used them (and supress any output).  Please note that I do sudo into root for this fix just to make sure there are no permissions errors–if you wish to go the fully ‘approved’ method, just append sudo on every single command here.

nuke@nuke-laptop:~$ cd /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils/

nuke@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils$ sudo su

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# xdg-mime uninstall --novendor /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/AdobeAIR.xml

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# sudo nano ../support/AdobeAIR.xml

This step requires that you remove the three lines starting with <magic priority=”100″> and ending with </magic>.

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# xdg-mime install --novendor /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/AdobeAIR.xml

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# sudo unlink /usr/share/mime-info/air.keys

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# sudo unlink /usr/share/mime-info/air.mime

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/air.keys /usr/share/mime-info/air.keys

root@nuke-laptop:/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/xdg-utils# sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/air.mime /usr/share/mime-info/air.mime

And there you go!  You shouldn’t have any more mime-type errors in Filezilla!

Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, Filezilla, mime types, Ubuntu

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