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1 perry 1 UPDATE-MIME
2 !!!UPDATE-MIME
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OVERRIDING ORDER
7 CREATING ENTRIES
8 DEPENDENCIES
9 SEE ALSO
10 AUTHOR
11 COPYRIGHT
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13 !!NAME
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16 update-mime - create or update MIME information
17 !!SYNOPSIS
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20 __update-mime__ [[no parameters]
21 !!DESCRIPTION
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24 __update-mime__ updates the __/etc/mailcap__ file to
25 reflect mime information changed by a Debian package during
26 installation or removal.
27 !!OVERRIDING ORDER
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30 The order of entries in the ''/etc/mailcap'' file can be
31 altered by editing the ''/etc/mailcap.order'' file.
32 Please see the mailcap.order(5) man page for more
33 information.
34 !!CREATING ENTRIES
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37 To create entries in the mailcap file, packages need to
38 create a file in the ''/usr/lib/mime/packages''
39 directory. In this file goes the verbatim desired mailcap
40 entries. In addition to the standard mailcap options
41 (described below) is a new ''priority'' option.
42 Specifying this will provide for simple ranking of programs
43 within a given mime type. An animation viewer, for example,
44 may be able to display a static picture, but probably
45 wouldn't be the best choice and so would give an option like
46 ''priority'' option is omitted, a value of 5 is
47 used.
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50 The following are standard options that can be specified in
51 the mailcap entry. Options are separated by semicolons (;)
52 but must all be on the same line. Each line should look
53 like:
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56 mime/type; viewer; option; another=val; etc;
57 priority=5
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60 Mime types of the form
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63 __Commands__
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66 __view=__
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69 Specifies the program to run to view a file of the given
70 content-type. Actually, the
71 This option connot be
72 omitted.__ When writing an entry that has no viewer, use a
73 value of ''false'' in this space.
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76 __compose=__
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79 The
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100 __Modifiers__
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103 These options are modifiers to all the commands specified on
104 the command line.
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107 __test=__
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113 __Note:__ When testing for X by looking at the
114 ''DISPLAY'' environment variable, please use one
115 of:
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118 test=test -z
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121 Many programs recognize these strings and optimize for
122 them.
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125 __needsterminal__
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128 The
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131 __copiousoutput__
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137 __Content-Type Info__
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140 These options provide additional information about the given
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144 __description=__
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165 The
166 !!DEPENDENCIES
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169 Packages that wish to provide MIME access to themselves
170 should __not__ depend on, recommend, or suggest
171 __mime-support.__ Instead, they should just put something
172 like the following in the ''postinst'' and ''postrm''
173 scripts.
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176 if [[ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
177 update-mime
178 fi
179 !!SEE ALSO
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182 mailcap.order(5), RFC-2046, RFC-1524
183 !!AUTHOR
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186 __update-mime__ was written by Brian White
187 __
188 !!COPYRIGHT
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191 __update-mime__ is in the public domain (the only true
192 __
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