Errors while installing on Ubuntu 20.04

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BubbleGuppies

Wow, version 11.6 now has an installer! Good job devs.

The update seems to be working fine, but I received some errors. I wanted to share this feedback so that it may help.
-> Installing to: /opt/FreeFileSync
-> New console command: freefilesync
-> Registering file extensions: *.ffs_gui, *.ffs_batch, *.ffs_real
/usr/share/mime/packages/resolve.xml:9: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
^
Failed to parse '/usr/share/mime/packages/resolve.xml'
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kdeconnect_open.desktop": "*/*" is an invalid MIME type ("*" is an unregistered media type)

All done!
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Zenju

TL;DR this error can be ignored

The error is from a different app unrelated to FFS that tried to register a broken MIME file. "update-mime-database" shows errors for all applications and doesn't have an API to only add a specific MIME file.

It is probably best for the FFS installer to add some hack to filter out this noise.