DH_INSTALLMIME(1)

✨ dh_installmime ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the dh_installmime page — that's manual section 1, and it's literally one of the little debhelper helpers that does exactly one job and does it iconically 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_installmime — install mime files into package build directories. that's it. that's the whole gig. no cap 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dh_installmime [debhelper options]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so, dh_installmime is a debhelper program, and its whole main character energy is: it's responsible for installing mime files into package build directories. ✨

like, that's genuinely it. it takes your mime files and it installs them. into the package build directories. she's focused, she's committed, she's not doing side quests. 🫶

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🎀 FILES 🎀

these are the files she's obsessed with, k?

• debian/package.mime — this one gets installed into usr/lib/mime/packages/package in the package build directory. 🌈
• debian/package.sharedmimeinfo — and this one gets installed into /usr/share/mime/packages/package.xml in the package build directory. note the <italic>package.xml</italic> glow-up, bestie — the extension changes on the way in, iykyk 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• debhelper(7) — go read it, fr fr 💜

oh and also, for the record: this program is a part of debhelper. it's not out here alone, she's got the whole squad 🌸

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> — actual legend, wrote this whole thing ✨👑

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cute lil sign-off time 🫶 this page is from Debhelper, version 14.5ubuntu1, dated 2026-09-21. slay, no notes, periodt 💅🎀