shared-mime-info-1.8

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-8.0 platform.

Package Information

Shared Mime Info Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.50.3 and libxml2-2.9.4

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

Installation of Shared Mime Info

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Note

If your processor is not a very recent Intel, you may need to use make -j1 for this package.

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 Library: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime

Short Descriptions

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database.

Last updated on 2017-02-15 16:04:09 -0800