Re: [Tracker] broken install...?

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> On 21/09/11 10:02, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> > 2011/9/21 Björn Johansson<bjorn_johansson bio uminho pt>:
> > > Hi, I still have some problems with the install of the latest 0.12_1
> > > version
> > >
> > > it was suggested to look for /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs -v 3
> > > i have such a directory, but I had old files there (from march this year)
> > > I do have a /usr/local/libexec with
> > >
> > > /usr/local/libexec/tracker-extract
> > > /usr/local/libexec/tracker-miner-flickr
> > > /usr/local/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
> > > /usr/local/libexec/tracker-store
> > >
> > > I think I would like to do a fresh install, is there any way of knowing
> > > which old files related to tracker that could/should be removed before a
> > > fresh install?
> > >
> > > just for the record, the way I use to install is the following:
> > >
> > > I download the tracker-0.12.1.tar.bz2
> > > extract to desktop
> > > ./configure in the extracted dir
> > > make
> > > sudo make install
> > > tracker-control -t
> > > tracker-control -s
> >
> > To undo this, you can use 'make uninstall'. Also note that you can set
> > the install prefix with ./configure --prefix=/usr to put tracker in
> > /usr instead of /usr/local (I believe Tracker doesn't fully support
> > being put in /usr/local ?).
>
> You do? Can you file a bug about this then, that should work.

Oh dear, I'm caught spreading hearsay ... I read this somewhere once
so always put tracker in /usr, but if it's not common knowledge then
it's probably also not true.

Sam