The Shared Mime Info package contains a MIME database. This allows central updates of MIME information for all supporting applications.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/archive/2.2/shared-mime-info-2.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 06cb9e92e4211dc53fd52b7bfd586c78
Download size: 6.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
Optional download, required to run the test suite: https://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/xdgmime/xdgmime.tar.xz
xdgmime md5sum: 7dfb4446705d345d3acd672024049e86
GLib-2.76.3 and libxml2-2.10.4
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/shared-mime-info
Install Shared Mime Info by running the following commands:
If you wish to run the test suite, you must first extract the
xdgmime
tarball into the current
directory, and compile it so that meson can find it:
tar -xf ../xdgmime.tar.xz && make -C xdgmime
Now build the package:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dupdate-mimedb=true .. && ninja
If you have followed the instructions above to build xdgmime, to test the result issue ninja test.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dupdate-mimedb=true
: This
parameter tells the build system to run update-mime-database during
installation. Otherwise, this must be done manually in order to be
able to use the MIME database.