shared-mime-info-0.14

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-2.4.1, libxml2-2.6.9 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

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.