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authorThomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk>2002-07-24 15:57:07 +0000
committerThomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk>2002-07-24 15:57:07 +0000
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+This package contains:
+
+- The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.
+- The merged GNOME and KDE databases, in the new format.
+- The update-mime-database command, used to install new MIME data.
+
+
+To install:
+
+Do the usual:
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make install
+
+If you want to install to your home directory, change the last step to:
+
+ $ make install mimedir=$HOME/.mime bindir=$HOME/bin
+
+You'll need to make sure that $HOME/bin is in your PATH, of course.
+
+See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info.html for more
+information.
+
+
+Thomas Leonard <tal00r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
+
+24-Jul-2002