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 $ make $ make install mimedir=$HOME/.mime 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> 29-Jul-2002