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

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

Contents

The shared-mime-info package contains update-mime-database and /usr/share/mime/*.

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.

Last updated on 2005-02-12 13:26:58 -0700