shared-mime-info-0.15

Introduction to shared-mime-info

The shared-mime-info package contains a MIME database. This allows central updates of MIME information for all supporting applications.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://freedesktop.org/software/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-0.15.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/shared-mime-info-0.15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 51793b041edc68717c3f87e26a4bc087
Download size: 422 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.03 SBU

shared-mime-info dependencies

Required

GLib-2.6.3, libxml2-2.6.17 and Perl modules: XML-Parser

Installation of shared-mime-info

Install shared-mime-info by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Configuring shared-mime-info

Configuration information

Some applications (including GNOME-2) require a properly set enviroment variable to locate the MIME database. Satisfy this requirement by setting the following variable in your local shell profile, or the system-wide profile:

XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share
export XDG_DATA_DIRS

Description

update-mime-database

update-mime-database assists in adding MIME data to the database.

MIME Database

/usr/share/mime/* contains the centralized MIME database.

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