How To Install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8

rubygem-mime-types is The mime-types library provides a library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8.

What is rubygem-mime-types

The mime-types library provides a library and registry for information about MIME content type definitions. It can be used to determine defined filename extensions for MIME types, or to use filename extensions to look up the likely MIME type definitions. Version 3.0 is a major release that requires Ruby 2.0 compatibility and removes deprecated functions. The columnar registry format introduced in 2.6 has been made the primary format; the registry data has been extracted from this library and put into {mime-types-data}[https Additionally, mime-types is now licensed exclusively under the MIT licence and there is a code of conduct in effect. There are a number of other smaller changes described in the History file.

We can use yum or dnf to install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-mime-types.

Install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rubygem-mime-types

Install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install rubygem-mime-types

How To Uninstall rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rubygem-mime-types package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rubygem-mime-types

rubygem-mime-types Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/Licence.md
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime-types.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/type
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/type.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/type/columnar.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/_columnar.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/cache.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/columnar.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/container.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/deprecations.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/full.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/loader.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/logger.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/mime-types-3.2.2/lib/mime/types/registry.rb
/usr/share/gems/specifications/mime-types-3.2.2.gemspec

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-mime-types on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.