The Shared Mime Info package contains a MIME database. This allows central updates of MIME information for all supporting applications.
Development versions of GLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Optional download, required to run the test suite: https://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/xdgmime/xdgmime.tar.xz
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
Now build the package:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -D update-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
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D update-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.