How To Install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-mime-data in Fedora 36. gnome-mime-data is MIME type data files for GNOME desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36.

What is `gnome-mime-data`

gnome-mime-data provides the file type recognition data files for gnome-vfs

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-mime-data.

Install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-mime-data using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-mime-data

Install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-mime-data using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-mime-data

How To Uninstall gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gnome-mime-data package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-mime-data

gnome-mime-data Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/gnome-vfs-mime-magic
/usr/share/application-registry
/usr/share/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mime-data
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mime-data/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mime-data/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnome-mime-data/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/li/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ije/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys
/usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.mime
/usr/share/pkgconfig/gnome-mime-data-2.0.pc

References

gnome-mime-data website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-mime-data on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).