How to Install and Uninstall shared-mime-info Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 29,2024

You can also install and uninstall the shared-mime-info on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "shared-mime-info" package

This guide let you learn how to install shared-mime-info on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                shared-mime-info
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "shared-mime-info" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall shared-mime-info on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the shared-mime-info package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: shared-mime-info
Version: 2.2-1
Installed-Size: 5030
Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Description: FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spec
Description-md5: 6f0051137219a573d6748b4e3bc55889
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
Tag: admin::configuring, implemented-in::c, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::app-data, role::program, suite::gnome,
uitoolkit::gtk, works-with::file, x11::application
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_2.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 728896
MD5sum: 9b177958350d5dfd200d0d79bddf0209
SHA256: dd026add873483566faefebbd8779a1e5e14ab2e44682ebfe238c3828a2b936b