How To Install chemical-mime-data on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemical-mime-data in Fedora 36. chemical-mime-data is Support for chemical/* MIME types

Introduction

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

What is chemical-mime-data

A collection of data files which tries to give support for various chemical MIME types (chemical/*) on Linux/UNIX desktops. Chemical MIME’s have been proposed in 1995, though it seems they have never been registered with IANA.

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

Install chemical-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 chemical-mime-data using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chemical-mime-data

Install chemical-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 chemical-mime-data using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chemical-mime-data

How To Uninstall chemical-mime-data on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove chemical-mime-data

chemical-mime-data Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/README
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/TODO
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/chemical-mime-data.html
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/cmd.css
/usr/share/doc/chemical-mime-data/index.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/36x36/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/gnome-mime-chemical.svgz
/usr/share/licenses/chemical-mime-data
/usr/share/licenses/chemical-mime-data/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/chemical-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/chemical-mime-data.mo
/usr/share/mime/packages/chemical-mime-data.xml
/usr/share/pkgconfig/chemical-mime-data.pc

References

Summary

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