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        • Summary

          A command-line utility that installs and edits desktop files.

          Website

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

          License

          • GPL 2.0

          Environment

          linux

          Architecture

          x86-64

          The desktop-file-install program is a tool to install, and optionally edit, desktop files. The desktop-file-edit program is a tool to edit a desktop file. They are mostly useful for developers and packagers.

          Various options are available to edit the desktop files. The edit options can be specified more than once and will be processed in the same order as the options passed to the program.

          desktop-file-install and desktop-file-edit will always try to validate the resulting desktop file. A failure to validate might lead to the abortion of the installation of the desktop files.

          The list of registered categories and desktop environments is defined in the Menu specification: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec.

          Versions

          • 0.23

          Related

          • maintainer

            occam

          • within

            collection

            desktop-file-utils

          • packaged with

            application

            desktop-file-validate

          • packaged with

            application

            update-desktop-database

          • packaged with

            application

            desktop-file-edit

          DependenciesHelp

          This section shows a list of objects the current object is dependent upon in order to be used.

          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/desktop-file-install

          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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          Linkusr/include/usr/include

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          Linkusr/share/usr/share

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          Linkusr/bin/usr/bin

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          No files will be installed.

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