Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20091118

Chapter 24. X Libraries

shared-mime-info-0.60

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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

shared-mime-info Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.22.0, libxml2-2.7.6, and XML::Parser-2.34

Optional

intltool-0.40.6

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/shared-mime-info

Installation of shared-mime-info

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

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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Configuring shared-mime-info

Configuration Information

Some applications (including GNOME-2) require a properly set environment 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

Installed Program: update-mime-database
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime/{application,audio,image,inode,message,model, multipart,packages,text,video,x-content,x-epoc}

Short Descriptions

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database.

Last updated on 2009-09-02 13:47:01 +0000