How to Install and Uninstall shared-mime-info Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "shared-mime-info" package

This tutorial shows how to install shared-mime-info on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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 guidelines below to uninstall shared-mime-info on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: shared-mime-info
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.1-1
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: 2740
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Filename: pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 432192
MD5sum: 56522d51f6f522e05c3ff8d3c312a498
SHA1: 0f475aa28f0f798186af24f5dd626ec84854e99c
SHA256: 7cdd2205e09dae3be9f541d9114a8c44f0a331c31e43d6eaf863da5b4582695e
SHA512: bb3509ecbc1a3397057183193f7cc01d703055b207ab270d983a2fa9b2bb6bc3edb5ee9e360eb63fc4d303cc435967665a7bf4a6e7a4874aa835ce79cdd4e5a2
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