Getting started

Currently, mime is available only for Linux.

Download the prebuilt binary

An archive containing a prebuilt linux-amd64 binary can be downloaded from here.

Extract the file into /usr/bin/ to make it available to all users, or to ~/.local/bin/ for just the current user.

Checkout the What next section.

I’ve tested only with gcc 10.2.0, but if you are using a recent enough version of your OS, gcc version shouldn’t be a problem.

On Manjaro/Arch, use:

sudo pacman -S make cmake gcc git

On Fedora, use:

sudo dnf install make cmake gcc-c++ git

And on Ubuntu/Linux Mint/etc, use:

sudo apt install make cmake g++ git

Use the below command to download the latest version of the mime source code:

git clone https://github.com/shsms/mime && cd mime

And build using:

make init    ## to initialize the submodules
make build   ## to build
make test    ## to run the unit tests.

Install to the systemd-path user-binaries (which defaults to ~/.local/bin/) using:

make install

Go to the examples page for some example scripts that you can play with.
Go to the concepts page for details on some of the concepts that mime is based on.
Go to the reference page for a list of all mime functions.
Go to the ChaiScript Getting started and Cheatsheet pages for documentation on how to use ChaiScript, which is the scripting language that mime is built on.