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What is a current replacement of gnome-open command (generic open of files based on the type)?



Before: 



gnome-open mydoc.pdf  # opened PDF in default application


Now:



gnome-open

The program 'gnome-open' is currently not installed.  You can install

it by typing: sudo apt-get install libgnome2-0

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You can use xdg-open to open documents, like so:



xdg-open mydoc.pdf


This has a bonus of being desktop agnostic so it should work regardless of what desktop the user has installed. In GNOME itself gnome-open has been replaced by gvfs-open.



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