Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-1289

Chapter 11. General Utilities

shared-mime-info-2.5.1

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.

[Note]

Note

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.1 platform.

Package Information

Shared Mime Info Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.88.3 and libxml2-2.15.3

Optional

git-2.55.0 (for tests), and xmlto-0.0.29

[Note]

Note

An Internet connection is needed for some tests of this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca-1.16.1 before testing this package.

Installation of Shared Mime Info

Install Shared Mime Info by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr         \
            --buildtype=release   \
            -D update-mimedb=true \
            -D build-tests=false  \
            -D build-spec=false   \
            .. &&
ninja

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

If want to run the tests, support files will automatically be downloaded from upstream. Build and run the tests with: 

meson configure -D build-tests=true &&
ninja test

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-D update-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.

-D build-spec=false: This parameter tells the build system to NOT insert the HTML specification into shared-mime-info-spec-html. Omit this parameter if xmlto-0.0.29 is installed.

Contents

Installed Program: update-mime-database
Installed Library: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime

Short Descriptions

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database