Re: [Tracker] about the website

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 19:07, Michael Lissner
<mlissner michaeljaylissner com> wrote:
> I believe this is the one:
> http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/installing-tracker-from-source
>
> Something I think people might appreciate is more detail about all the
> dependencies. Something like, if you want tracker to be able to read the
> tags in jpegs, install X, if you want it to be able to do pdfs, install
> Y. Maybe a table would be useful?
>
> The other two things that have given me trouble in the past was (1)
> whether to uninstall the tracker version from my distro's repos first,
> and (2) where to find the commands to start tracker once it is installed
> (and which command actually starts it - is it trackerd, tracker-applet,
> tracker?) I think the commands end up somewhere that isn't part of most
> people's path too, so I had trouble getting it to GO.
>
> It would be great to see these instructions get some polish. Default
> tracker installations by Ubuntu (and I believe other distros) seriously
> leave out a lot of tracker's power (no jpegs, pdfs, tiffs, etc). Better
> instructions might lead to people using more of the program's code.

Info in README is little more detailed and I was torn on what's more
suitable for README and what's more suitable for the web. What's your
advise?


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