update-mime-database not recognized

[Ralf Habacker]

John Levin schrieb:
> Saro Engels wrote:
>   
>> John Levin schrieb:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm going through the post-install steps for KDE 4, using 
>>> KDE-win-installer 0.8.6
>>>
>>> When I try running the update-mime-database command, I get
>>> "'update-mime-database' not recognized as an internal or external 
>>> command, operable program or batch file."
>>> I have set the path; I can't find any package entitled 
>>> 'update-mime-database' - what am I missing?
>>>       
>> shared-mime-info is the package you need - it should be installed as a 
>> dependency of the KDE packages.
>> Please have a look whether
>> 1) the package in the package download path is corrupted,
>>     
>
> I'm using www.mirrorservice.org, and the package shows up there:
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/4.0.60/win32/%5Bpage=0%5D
>
>   
>> 2) it is there or not
>>     
>
> shared-mime-info is not on my machine
>
>   
according to 
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/4.0.60/win32/config.txt

shared-mime-info is a dependency of kdelibs-msvc and kdelibs-mingw, 
which means if you install the kdelibs-msvc or kdelibs-mingw package 
shared-mime-info is installed by default.

Ralf