How To Install shared-mime-info on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shared-mime-info on CentOS 8.
What is shared-mime-info
This is the freedesktop.org shared MIME info database. Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of files. Frequently, it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for a file. This is generally done by examining the file’s name or contents, and looking up the correct MIME type in a database.
We can use yum or dnf to install shared-mime-info on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shared-mime-info.
Install shared-mime-info 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 shared-mime-info using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shared-mime-info
Install shared-mime-info 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 shared-mime-info using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shared-mime-info
How To Uninstall shared-mime-info on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the shared-mime-info package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shared-mime-info
shared-mime-info Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/update-mime-database
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/5f6716ea748ed50b53069dc843062ecdaa2d77
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list
/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info
/usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/README
/usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-spec.xml
/usr/share/licenses/shared-mime-info
/usr/share/licenses/shared-mime-info/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/update-mime-database.1.gz
/usr/share/mime
/usr/share/mime/packages
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
/usr/share/pkgconfig
/usr/share/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shared-mime-info on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.