Re: [Tracker] RDF Queries

[Michael Lissner <mlissner michaeljaylissner com>]

Hey all - I've continued working with this, and I finally got it to 
install correctly, which is no mean feat. I wrote up a tutorial on it, 
and I'd suggest that at least parts of it get folded in with the 
instructions on the Tracker website (especially the part about the 
dependency installation). If anybody has any thoughts on that, I'd love 
to hear them. The tutorial is here: 
http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/installing-tracker-from-source

I do have one bug though with my install that I thought I would ask 
about. In the tracker-search-tool window, the results aren't loading, as 
seen here: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6463/screenshottrackersearch.png

Does anybody know about that? Once I have that fixed, I'm going to get 
back to my original quest: documenting RDF!

Mike



Michael Lissner wrote:
> Ah ha! That location happens to not be in my path, which is quite 
> unusual, so I now got it working (well, to start anyway).
>
> Now I got everything to install except for the tracker-applet. 
> Everything else seems to work as of now though, which is progress. I 
> will play with the rdf queries some more when I have more time, but if 
> anybody has advice about making tracker-applet install, that would be 
> great.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> Martyn Russell wrote:
> > 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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