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George Kastrinis
Asked: 2011-10-17 02:44:12 +0800 CST

"Permission denied" error when changing the default applications

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I'm trying to change the default applications in Ubuntu 11.10 and I fail to do so.

I go to system info > default applications and I make some changes. If I close and reopen the system info window, the changes have reverted to the old ones.

Also if I go to a .avi for example > properties > open with and I try to set as default something else, I get

Could not set as default

Error while setting "VLC media player" as default application: Failed to create file '/home/george/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.WCOC3V': Permission denied

11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found a solution myself. Not sure if it's the best one.

    The /home/george/.local/share/applications directory was owned by root. Not sure if it was meant to be that way. Anyway after I changed owner, I can now set some other program as the default without problem.

    sudo chown -R george:george /home/george/.local/share/applications

    As an addition, now the changes from system info work as well

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