Information about the package, shared-mime-info, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The shared-mime-info package is designed for, Shared MIME information database.
Package Name:
shared-mime-info
Summary:
Shared MIME information database
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.70
Release:
6.el6
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the shared-mime-info package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install shared-mime-info
This command will install shared-mime-info on the server.
yum remove shared-mime-info
This command will un-install shared-mime-info on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove shared-mime-info, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove shared-mime-info
This command will un-install shared-mime-info on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove shared-mime-info when using the -y flag.
yum update shared-mime-info
This command will update shared-mime-info to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove shared-mime-info, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update shared-mime-info
This command will update shared-mime-info to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove shared-mime-info when using the -y flag.
yum info shared-mime-info
This command will show you core information about the shared-mime-info package.
yum deplist shared-mime-info
This command will show you the dependencies for shared-mime-info. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update shared-mime-info
This command will check if there is an update waiting on shared-mime-info. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.