shared-mime-info-1.0

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-7.0 platform.

Package Information

shared-mime-info Dependencies

Required

intltool-0.50.0, libxml2-2.7.8 and pkg-config-0.26

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

Contents

Installed Program: update-mime-database
Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime

Short Descriptions

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database.

Last updated on 2012-04-22 10:39:20 +0000