This module can be used to determine the mime type of a file; it's a replacement for File::MMagic trying to implement the freedesktop specification for using the shared mime-info database. The package comes with a script called 'mimetype' that can be used as a file(1) work-alike.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
or alternatively:
perl Build.pl
perl Build test
perl Build install
DEPENDENCIES
This module expects the freedesktop mime database to be installed, some linux distrobutions include it, otherwise it can obtained from :
http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info
This module requires these other modules which can be obtained from the CPAN <http://cpan.org> if they are not allready installed on your system :
Carp
Exporter
Fcntl
Pod::Usage
File::Basename
File::BaseDir
File::DesktopEntry
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (c) 2003,2008 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.