Rails Error Can't Find freedesktop.org.xml

Question

I've had some issues starting a new RAILS project, where I'm getting an error that there is a missing file /usr/local/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. There was a connection with the mimemagic dependencies, and I found this issue on GitHub about the mimemagic version and licensing - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41750

Wondering if anybody else ran into the issue, and could explain what is going on.

I'm using rbenv with ruby version: 3.0.0p0 (2020-12-25 revision 95aff21468) [x86_64-darwin19], and rails 6.1.3

Here is the error message in the command line:

Installing railties 6.1.3 Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.      current directory: /Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mimemagic-0.3.7/ext/mimemagic /Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/bin/ruby -I/Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/3.0.0 -rrubygems /Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/rake-13.0.3/exe/rake RUBYARCHDIR\=/Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-19/3.0.0/mimemagic-0.3.7 RUBYLIBDIR\=/Users/nico/.rbenv/versions/3.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-19/3.0.0/mimemagic-0.3.7 rake aborted! Could not find MIME type database in the following locations: ["/usr/local/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml", "/opt/homebrew/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml", "/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml"]  Ensure you have either installed the shared-mime-types package for your distribution, or  obtain a version of freedesktop.org.xml and set FREEDESKTOP_MIME_TYPES_PATH to the location of that file.  Tasks: TOP => default (See full trace by running task with --trace)  rake failed, exit code 1 

Thanks, Nico

Answer 1

Found some links to shared-mime-info on the GitHub link I posted, and I solved the issue by running the command below and starting a new project:

brew install shared-mime-info 

Answer 2

If you are on ubuntu OS you can run below command

sudo apt-get install shared-mime-info