Re: [Tracker] RDF Queries

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Michael Lissner wrote:
> I put some time into installing this from source today (~2hrs) and 
> didn't end up much closer. Now I have no tracker at all.

From your distribution, it would probably have been easier to just 
download the tarball and install it manually. That would have possibly 
been less work.

> My process was to remove the Ubuntu tracker version (sudo aptitude purge 
> tracker), and to install the one from source. I had to install a TON of 
> dependencies to get it to work:
>
> sudo aptitude install libgmime-2.0-2a libgmime-2.0-2-dev dbus-glib-1-dev 
> libdbus-glib-1-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev sqlite3-dev 
> libsqlite3-dev libexif-dev libgsf-1-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev 
> libxine-dev libpoppler-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libpoppler-glib-dev 
> libtotem-plparser-dev libunac1-dev libexempi-dev

This is mostly for metadata extraction.

> After all that, I was able to install it, but now when I run trackerd, 
> it says I don't have trackerd installed. I do seem to have the new 
> tracker-info installed, so that's good. And the install went fine, which 
> is good.

The trackerd process is now spawned from DBus. It does exist, just not 
in the patch. It should be in /usr/lib/tracker/trackerd OR 
/usr/libexec/trackerd (depending on your distro).

> I also couldn't sort out how to install the deskbar applet or the gtk 
> search query window, so those are now gone from my system. I didn't see 
> anything in the documentation about these either.

The tracker-search-tool should definitely be installed. The deskbar 
applet needs some extra parameters when being built (the configure 
summary should tell you what is built and what is not).

You should be able to either run tracker-search-tool from the console OR 
run tracker-applet to start it from the notification area.

> Thanks again for the help, hopefully I'll be able to contribute a bit 
> here eventually...I also tried to find people on IRC...but to no avail.

Yea, sorry about that. You should have better luck Monday morning ;)

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Regards,
Martyn