How to Install and Uninstall shared-mime-info Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "shared-mime-info" package

This guide let you learn how to install shared-mime-info on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall shared-mime-info on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                shared-mime-info
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the shared-mime-info package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: shared-mime-info
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: important
Section: misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2708
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Filename: pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_2.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 434796
MD5sum: d51e740c6fca042a3c7c18074488db9f
SHA1: 5749a17deedbf6d422046701ad58f0ced3c600d5
SHA256: 8a6df0d0a8c0d78d25107748ebddb6e702e42dbd0e47af947522fa8e94aa5fcd
SHA512: 5b9a1969c8be5152810668dc2e2748c3ef346c650cbdff09f8cac56c211e6a496228e3ab91923003ae78e44aaeb6aaf412128701e470d7e754f52494712409b1
Homepage: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
Description-en: FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spec
This is the shared MIME-info database from the X Desktop Group. It is required
by any program complying to the Shared MIME-Info Database spec, which is also
included in this package.
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At this time at least ROX, GNOME, KDE and Xfce use this database.
Description-md5: 6f0051137219a573d6748b4e3bc55889
Task: minimal