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    update-desktop-database0.23
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        • Summary

          A command-line utility that maintains a cache database of MIME types for desktop files.

          Website

          https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils

          License

          • GPL 2.0

          Environment

          linux

          Architecture

          x86-64

          The update-desktop-database program is a tool to build a cache database of the MIME types handled by desktop files.

          The cache database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled by desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop files that can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the work of applications that need to find an application that can open a document of a specific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse all the desktop files existing on the system, and can instead parse this cache database.

          If no DIRECTORY is specified as argument, the desktop files that will be processed are the ones installed in $XDGDATADIRS/applications.

          If both the --quiet and --verbose options are used, then --verbose will be ignored.

          Versions

          • 0.23

          Related

          • maintainer

            occam

          • within

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            desktop-file-utils

          • packaged with

            application

            desktop-file-validate

          • packaged with

            application

            desktop-file-install

          • packaged with

            application

            desktop-file-edit

          DependenciesHelp

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          For dependencies that are only relevant as part of the build or runtime of the object, it is best to describe those local to those sections.

          • library

            glib2

            2.x

          RunHelp

          This section tracks information useful to describing how to run this object.

          Command

          • /usr/bin/update-desktop-database

          Run Environment

          • linux
          • x86-64

          InstallationHelp

          Objects have a set of files that comprise that object, as seen in the Files tab. When an object is built, they have a set of files that are the result of that build. In each case, these sets of files are the ones that are accessible within a virtual machine when running the object.

          This section describes how those files are accessible and visible to that machine. When a virtual machine is created, the data is always accessible read-only within a particular mounted directory. However, applications may expect to be located at particular directories. This section allows one to place files in different directories when the virtual machine is launched.

          There are two types of access. One is a link where the file is not copied from its original location. Instead, it creates what is called a symbolic link which is a "shortcut" that acts like a normal file but allows the actual data to be in a different directory. The other type is a traditional copy which copies the data explicitly to the provided destination. This takes more time, but the copy can be modified, unlike the read-only link type.

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