The shared-mime-info package contains the core database of common types and the *update-mime-database* command used to extend it. It requires glib2 to be installed for building the update command. Additionally, it uses intltool for translations, though this is only a dependency for the maintainers. This database is translated at the translation project.
See the Shared MIME Info Specification for more information about the database.
CVS
The CVS module for this spec is "shared-mime-info", in the "/cvs/mime" repository.
Obtain
Sources
shared-mime-info-0.12.tar.gz. GPG signature: tar.gz.sig.
Distribution-specific packages
Debian: packaged as shared-mime-info.
FreeBSD: packaged in FreeBSD ports.
Gentoo Linux: package.
OpenBSD: packaged in OpenBSD ports.
Slackware: unofficial packages
Arch Linux: package in the "extra" repository.
Lunar Linux: in the moonbase module.
RPMs
Mandriva RPMs in Cooker (choose a mirror, then go to media/main/release).
SuSE RPMs: packman.links2linux.de.
Red Hat
Fedora Core 2: binary: shared-mime-info-0.14-1.i386.rpm, and source: shared-mime-info-0.14-1.src.rpm.
Fedora Core 1: binary: shared-mime-info-0.13-1.i386.rpm, and source: shared-mime-info-0.13-1.src.rpm.
Red Hat 9: binary: shared-mime-info-0.12-1.i386.rpm, and source: shared-mime-info-0.12-1.src.rpm.