Here a noob myself, here's my experience: On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:39 +0000, Björn Johansson wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded and successfully compiled the latest tracker 0.7.17. > I set some options using the system>preferences>search and indexing > (ubuntu 9.10). > however, tracker didnt start and calling trackerd and the cli I got > the message that there was no such command.
You terminate tracker with $ tracker-control -t Start it with $ tracker-control -s After restaring it, you must start the icon with $ tracker-status-icon & To watch the progress (same info you get clicking on the icon) $ tracker-status > after restarting the computer I get the animated magnifying glass > icon. > leftclick on the icon gets me applications 100% and file system 0%. > The files in /home/bjorn/.cache/tracker are not changing size, so I > think tracker is not working, despite the animated icon? Throthling might be at work here... Leave the pc alone for half a minute and see if it pickups. > > Could someone tell me how to proceed? The instructions on the > metatracker website seem outdated? > I do not have any of the ubuntu tracker packages installed: None of the 0.6.x package are neccesary (i would avoid them) > I would like to write a guide for compiling, installing and using the > modern versions of tracker for people who are not developers that I > could contribute to the tracker website. Great idea, i could've used it :) Greetings, Jorge _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
