Issue installing web-installer-url-handler

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I got this while updating with pamac:

Erneuere pamac-cli (9.5.10-2 -> 9.5.12-1)...
Erneuere pamac-gtk (9.5.10-2 -> 9.5.12-1)...
Installiere web-installer-url-handler (1.0.2-1)...
Konfiguriere web-installer-url-handler...
touch: '/.config/mimeapps.list' kann nicht berührt werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: Zeile 873: /.config/mimeapps.list.new: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

So it can’t touch mimeapps.list and then fails to access mimeapps.list.new.

Now the questions are:

  • Do I need web-installer-url-handler or is that an obsolete package?
  • Shouldn’t it be ~/.config/mimeapps.list and ~/.config/mimeapps.list.new?
  • How do I fix this now manually after the update?
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Any help regarding the web-installer-url-handler please?

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manjaro-hello and software-center-web-jak depend on web-installer-url-handler. What about it?

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Well, how do I fix it?

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Oh, sorry I didn’t look at the error very closely earlier.

What happens if you run:

xdg-mime default web-installer-url-handler.desktop x-scheme-handler/web-pamac
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The good thing is that there is no error:

$ xdg-mime default web-installer-url-handler.desktop x-scheme-handler/web-pamac
$

On the other hand if manjaro-hello really is just a helper application for newcomers I also just may remove it from my system. I mean I launched it the other day to see what it was and I hadn’t seen it before that. So I may as well be happy without it… No idea…

I’m a bit reluctant to uninstalling something as I never know if that also uninstalls something I may need at one point or is required already despite it not being marked as a dependency (I’ve seen things…).

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