[feeb99a] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-download-http "http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-&shared-mime-info-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-download-ftp " ">
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[4ba9842] | 9 | <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-buildsize "4.4 MB">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-size "422 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY shared-mime-info-time "0.03 SBU">
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[feeb99a] | 12 | ]>
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| 13 |
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[a1e93c53] | 14 | <sect1 id="shared-mime-info" xreflabel="shared-mime-info-&shared-mime-info-version;">
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[a0f03b0] | 15 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 16 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 17 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 18 | </sect1info>
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[19aa75a] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="shared-mime-info.html" ?>
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[a1e93c53] | 20 | <title>shared-mime-info-&shared-mime-info-version;</title>
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| 21 |
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[feeb99a] | 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Introduction to <application>shared-mime-info</application></title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>The <application>shared-mime-info</application> package contains a
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| 26 | <acronym>MIME</acronym> database. This allows central updates of
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| 27 | <acronym>MIME</acronym> information for all supporting applications.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 30 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 31 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&shared-mime-info-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 32 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&shared-mime-info-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 33 | <listitem><para>Download size: &shared-mime-info-size;</para></listitem>
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| 34 | <listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &shared-mime-info-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 35 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time: &shared-mime-info-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 36 | </sect3>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <sect3><title><application>shared-mime-info</application> dependencies</title>
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| 39 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[4ba9842] | 40 | <para><xref linkend="GLib2"/>,
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| 41 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/> and
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| 42 | <xref linkend="perl-modules"/>: XML-Parser</para>
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| 43 | </sect4>
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[feeb99a] | 44 | </sect3>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect2>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect2>
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| 49 | <title>Installation of <application>shared-mime-info</application></title>
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| 50 |
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[4ba9842] | 51 | <para>Install <application>shared-mime-info</application> by running the
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| 52 | following commands:</para>
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[feeb99a] | 53 |
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| 54 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 55 | make &&
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| 56 | make install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </sect2>
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| 59 |
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[4ba9842] | 60 | <sect2>
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| 61 | <title>Configuring <application>shared-mime-info</application></title>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect3><title>Configuration information</title>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>Some applications
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| 66 | (including <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-2) require
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| 67 | a properly set enviroment variable to locate the <acronym>MIME</acronym>
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| 68 | database. Satisfy this requirement by setting the following variable in your
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| 69 | local shell profile, or the system-wide profile:</para>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <screen><userinput>XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share
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| 72 | export XDG_DATA_DIRS</userinput></screen>
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| 73 | </sect3>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | </sect2>
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| 76 |
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[feeb99a] | 77 | <sect2>
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| 78 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 79 |
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[4ba9842] | 80 | <para>The <application>shared-mime-info</application> package contains
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| 81 | <command>update-mime-database</command> and
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| 82 | <filename>/usr/share/mime/*</filename>.</para>
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[feeb99a] | 83 |
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| 84 | </sect2>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <sect3><title>update-mime-database</title>
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| 89 | <para><command>update-mime-database</command> assists in adding
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| 90 | <acronym>MIME</acronym> data to the database.</para></sect3>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <sect3><title>MIME Database</title>
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| 93 | <para><filename>/usr/share/mime/*</filename> contains the centralized
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| 94 | <acronym>MIME</acronym> database.</para></sect3>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | </sect2>
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[a1e93c53] | 97 |
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| 98 | </sect1>
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| 99 |
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