Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 11. General Utilities

shared-mime-info-2.1

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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Shared Mime Info Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.70.4, itstool-2.0.7, libxml2-2.9.13, and xmlto-0.0.28

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

Installation of Shared Mime Info

Install Shared Mime Info by running the following commands:

If you wish to run the test suite, you must first extract the xdgmime tarball into the current directory, and compile it so that meson can find it: 

tar -xf ../xdgmime.tar.xz &&
make -C xdgmime

One of the changes in meson-0.60 broke this package. To fix that apply a patch: 

patch -p1 -i ../shared-mime-info-2.1-meson_0.60_fix-1.patch

Now build the package: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dupdate-mimedb=true .. &&
ninja

If you have followed the instructions above to build xdgmime, to test the result issue ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

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

-Dupdate-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.

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

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