Promote evince in /etc/mailcap.order

GIMP very unexpectedly took over opening PDF files a while ago when issuing the see command. It is listed in /etc/mailcap before the more appropriate evince. Of course I can edit this file by hand, but since it is managed by the system, the next update-mime run will overwrite these changes.

There is a file called /etc/mailcap.order that promises to help to achieve exactly what I want. I added and entry there:

evince:application/pdf

However, the next update-mime run answers with:

Warning: package evince listed in /etc/mailcap.order does \
    not have mailcap entries.

Changing the package name to evince-common or changing the media type to */* did not achieve anything. So what is the right format?

Solution 1:

Just following @Jos suggestion, I fixed this annoying issue with:

echo 'application/pdf; evince %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"' | sudo tee /usr/lib/mime/packages/evince
echo 'evince:application/pdf'| sudo tee -a /etc/mailcap.order 
sudo update-mime

Solution 2:

You can add the line between the "User Section Begins" and "User Section Ends" lines in /etc/mailcap. These lines should not be overwritten by update-mime.

However, at least if you are managing more computers through some deployment system, the solution by fuujuhi may be better.