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, you should instead do:

	$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
	$ make
	$ make install

You'll need to make sure that $HOME/.local/bin is in your PATH, of course.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec for more
information.


Please report bugs to the mailing list:

	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/GettingInvolved

Thomas Leonard, 04-Aug-2004


Useful reference links:
IANA:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
KDE's old mime-types:
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/mimetypes/