Hello Team,

while upgrading our systems with yum or dnf I recognized this message while upgrading "shared-mime-info":

Installing       : shared-mime-info-1.6-2.ppc
  Running scriptlet: shared-mime-info-1.6-2.ppc

Note that '/opt/freeware/share' is not in the search path
set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variables, so applications may not
be able to find it until you set them. The
directories currently searched are:

- /root/.local/share
- /usr/local/share/
- /usr/share/
​

I've already checked in google for it, but could not find a solution.

Where and how exactly should I add the mentioned search path and what is it for?

Many thanks in advance for your support,

Joerg

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Best regards,
Joerg Kauke
Unix Administrator
COOP Switzerland
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#AIXOpenSource

# rpm -q shared-mime-info-1.6-2.ppc --scripts
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/opt/freeware/bin/update-mime-database /opt/freeware/share/mime > /dev/null
The message is thrown by the above post-install script which updates the MIME database. 

If you use X desktop applications which wants to figure out the file types , extensions and icons, then you might need to care about this settings.
https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mime-types.html.en
Otherwise you can ignore this.

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Ayappan P
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Thanks a lot Ayappan for your explanation. I will check for that...

best regards,
Joerg

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Joerg Kauke
Unix Administrator
COOP Switzerland
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue August 11, 2020 11:56 AM
From: Ayappan P
Subject: shared-mime-info

# rpm -q shared-mime-info-1.6-2.ppc --scripts
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/opt/freeware/bin/update-mime-database /opt/freeware/share/mime > /dev/null
The message is thrown by the above post-install script which updates the MIME database. 

If you use X desktop applications which wants to figure out the file types , extensions and icons, then you might need to care about this settings.
https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mime-types.html.en
Otherwise you can ignore this.

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Ayappan P
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