Re: [Tracker] Indexing of odf/odt files

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

Hi Tobias,

> some days ago I installed tracker and up to now nearly everything worked
> as expected. However, I have some issues regarding indexing of odf/odt
> files. It seems that tracker is not indexing any of my odf files at all.
> I am using Arch Linux and tracker v. 0.8.3.
>
> According to the list of supported formats on the tracker website (see
> http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/SupportedFormats) tracker should be able
> to index odf/odt files as long as unzip is installed (which is the case
> on my system). However, the last change of the list was in 2008 what
> makes me believe that the information there could be outdated.

A fix to avoid needing unzip for OASIS files will be commited probably
this week:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616493

Unzip was needed to extract the metadata of the OASIS files.

> Since I didn't find any configuration tweaks in the Arch Linux tracker
> package that disable the indexing of odf/odt files I did some googling
> and found out that they people at the Ubuntu forums recommend to use
> odt2txt. However, this seems to me to be a quite dirty workaround.
>
> Is there anyone who has/had the same problem and has any ideas on a
> possible fix?

Actually, Tracker will use odt2txt to extract the contents of the OASIS
files. Thus, if odt2txt program is not available in the system, Tracker
will not index any contents of OASIS files.

Cheers,
-- 
Aleksander