GNOME MIME Data-2.4.2

Introduction to GNOME MIME Data

The GNOME MIME Data package contains the base set of file types and applications for GNOME-2.

Package information

GNOME MIME Data dependencies

Required

Perl modules: XML-Parser

Installation of GNOME MIME Data

Install GNOME MIME Data by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&
make &&
make install &&
install -d -m755 $GNOME_PREFIX/man/man5 &&
install -m644 man/gnome-vfs-mime.5 $GNOME_PREFIX/man/man5

Command explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

The GNOME MIME Data package contains $GNOME_PREFIX/share/application-registry and $GNOME_PREFIX/share/mime-info.

Description

application-registry

application-registry contains the application mime database.

mime-info

mime-info contains the mime description database.

Last updated on 2004-11-23 00:56:22 -0700