gnome-open: command not found

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Hi,

Running on a fresh install ( + updates ) of 12.1 X86_64 with Gnome 3 I found out that xdg-open no longer works

robert@rmuntean-w7:~> xdg-open http://www.google.com
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 342: gnome-open: command not found

How can I get xdg-open to work?

Thanks,

Robert

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  • From my box:

ab@mybox:~/Desktop> rpm -qf which gnome-open
libgnome-2.32.1-3.1.2.x86_64

Do you have libgnome installed? I’m using a KDE-based system and this
is where that file (gnome-open) was found (I have a lot of Gnome stuff
installed as well; get the best of all worlds).

Good luck.
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That fixed it, thanks! Strangely enough it was not present on a stock Gnome 3 install.

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Personally this sounds like a bug in the xdg-utils package since it is
depending on a file from another package that is not necessarily there.
Modifying the xdg-utils SPEC file to require libgnome would fix this.
Bug# 749612 in Novell’s BugZilla database submitted (you’re welcome to
add yourself to the CC list if you’d like). It seems odd that something
which appears to be desktop-independent would depend on gnome-open, but
I have never used this command afaik so maybe that makes sense in a way
I do not understand.

Good luck.
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OK, I CC’ed myself to the bug report.

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A simple workaround is to run as root:

# sed -i 's/gnome-open/gvfs-open/' /usr/bin/xdg-open