Why did I send this only to Don? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 15, 2007 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [Tracker] Question about running tracker. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/15/07, Don Rozenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just download 0.5.4 source and build and installed it in /usr/local. > I am running Kubuntu 6.06 and I have a couple of questions. > > 1. It seems to configure giving the following result: > > Tracker-0.5.4: > > prefix: /usr/local > source code location: . > compiler: gcc > enable gcc warnings: yes > build with debug symbols: no > database engine: SQLite > file monitor backend to be used: inotify > inotify header location: linux/inotify.h > ioprio support: no > build search tool (GNOME): no > > Metadata extractors: > > pdf: yes > png: yes > exif (jpeg): yes > gsf: yes > video files: ? (An external video > player will be called) > > How do I get it to build the search tool? There are "missing" messages > from configure relevant to GNOME or the GUI. In fact it builds the > makefile for tracker-search-tool but make never goes there. Install GNOME -dev packages which should be quite a number (maybe there's a metapackage for for your OS). else: * add 'deb-src http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main' to your /etc/apt/sources.list, * run 'sudo apt-get update', * run 'sudo apt-get build-dep tracker-search-tool' which should pull in the build dependencies to get TST to build * check out the README file before rebuilding that Tracker of things; http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/start.html might be of use too > 2. I have the bulk of my personal files in a separate partition > "/usr-files/rozen" and in my home directory "/home/rozen" I have > symbolic links to various directories in "/usr-files/rozen" > Apparently, tracker does not follow symbolic links; it doesn't seem to > index any of those files. ? > I went into ~/.Tracker/tracker/cfg and added ";/usr-files/rozen, but > nothing seemed to happen when I saved the file. I then used kill to > terminate trackerd and restarted it. But it still does appear to do > anything different. How can I get those additional files indexed? Is > there a command to get tracker to restart with the new config? The line > in th config file is: > > WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/rozen;/usr-files/rozen Are you sure you killed it as in kill -9? _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
