How to clean and add options to the Open With list of apps

Posted by Luis Alvarado on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Luis Alvarado
Published on 2012-09-11T03:24:01Z Indexed on 2012/09/11 3:49 UTC
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After installing several PPAs (Wine, PoL) and opening several files with other apps (Like changing from Totem to VLC) I discovered that the Open With option had 2 problems:

Many items on the list are duplicated (As seen on the image for "A Wine Program")
Sometimes the app I want to use to open is not shown there (For example, Virtualbox or VLC)

So how can I edit this list to clean the duplicates and add missing apps from the list.

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