shared-mime-info-1.6

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-7.10 platform.

Download (HTTP): http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-1.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 10abc5c4e6b22223ff05c3bd70ff9e8f
Download size: 545 KB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (on a minimal system, up to 0.5 SBU on a fully loaded desktop)

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

Installed Program: update-mime-database

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database.

Last updated on 2016-08-27 10:19:11 -0700