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The raw portfile for shared-mime-info 0.51 is located here:
http://shared-mime-info.darwinports.com/dports/devel/shared-mime-info/Portfile
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The shared-mime-info Portfile 41808 2008-11-10 23:41:44Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: shared-mime-info
Version: 0.51
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Category: devel
Platform: darwin
Description: Database of common types.

Long Description: The core database of common types and the update-mime-database command used to extend it.

Homepage: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
Master Sites: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/
use_bzip2 yes

Checksums: md5 01d72161f7d88123fbccd378871f02f0 sha1 4428b572e6d0fd1d8cf5d2f3eb887d7ab90e151f rmd160 9e0281f3bd9ac44af60833ec6b15af9f58936cc7

depends_build port:pkgconfig path:bin/perl:perl5 port:p5-xml-parser port:intltool

configure.env-append INTLTOOL_PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl

depends_lib port:gettext path:lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc:glib2 port:libiconv port:libxml2 port:zlib

configure.args --disable-update-mimedb

post-activate {
ui_debug "Updating MIME database..."
system "${prefix}/bin/update-mime-database -V ${prefix}/share/mime"
}

livecheck.check regex
livecheck.regex ${name}-(\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)*)

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/shared-mime-info
%  sudo port install shared-mime-info  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching shared-mime-info
--->  Verifying checksum for shared-mime-info
--->  Extracting shared-mime-info
--->  Configuring shared-mime-info
--->  Building shared-mime-info with target all

--->  Staging shared-mime-info into destroot

--->  Installing shared-mime-info

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using shared-mime-info with these commands:

%  man shared-mime-info
%  apropos shared-mime-info
%  which shared-mime-info
%  locate shared-mime-info

 Where to find more information: