Re: Desktop Search Engines
For the command line there is swish++. Its worth a try but it requires a configuration file (see /usr/share/doc/swish++). -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop Search Engines
Rick wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... I just recently switched from Google Desktop for Linux to beagle for that task. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Desktop Search Engines
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2009-04-30 08:56:38 -0700]: I just recently switched from Google Desktop for Linux to beagle for that task. Lenny or Sid? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Desktop Search Engines
Dave Patterson wrote: * Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2009-04-30 08:56:38 -0700]: I just recently switched from Google Desktop for Linux to beagle for that task. Lenny or Sid? Lenny. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Desktop Search Engines
* Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com [090427 21:03]: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:17, Jeff Zhang ideal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine There was a thread discussing this last year: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/thrd3.html#01357 I haven't gotten around to implementing any of the suggestions yet, hope to do so soon, am leaning towards recoll. One feature that's important to me is a cli interface. roll is my favourite for such thing. What is roll? I don't see it in Sid I think that was meant to be recoll. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John Magolske listm...@b79.net wrote: * Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com [090427 21:03]: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:17, Jeff Zhang ideal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine There was a thread discussing this last year: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/thrd3.html#01357 I haven't gotten around to implementing any of the suggestions yet, hope to do so soon, am leaning towards recoll. One feature that's important to me is a cli interface. roll is my favourite for such thing. What is roll? I don't see it in Sid I think that was meant to be recoll. yes, sorry for mistype
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 01:43:05 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around with Beagle and Tracker, I prefer Tracker. Tracker is supposed to be lighter on resources than Beagle. Tracker also does not depend on Mono, if you care about that sort of thing. Another option is Strigi, which has community connections to KDE (but it does not have KDE or QT dependencies). Correction, the Strigi daemon does not have QT or KDE dependencies. The default client, however, is in QT. I am currently running recoll which seems the least intrusive. I you want to use nepomuk, you are stuck with the strigi stuff. Nepomuk, even with NO indexing, is a system-hawg. Ihave to manually renice it just to make KDE4 usable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:43:42PM -0400, Rick wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... Thanks! Rick I used Beagle for a while. You can customize it a bit for your own needs.. It will take a while to index everything. $ aptitude show beagle snip Description: indexing and search tool for your personal data A desktop search util for indexing and searching user's data. At the moment, it can index filesystems, Pidgin logs, Evolution mail and data, RSS and other. Beagle project web is at http://beagle-project.org/ Homepage: http://www.beagle-project.org/ -- Daryl Styrk Naples, FL USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:43, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around with Beagle and Tracker, I prefer Tracker. Tracker is supposed to be lighter on resources than Beagle. Tracker also does not depend on Mono, if you care about that sort of thing. Another option is Strigi, which has community connections to KDE (but it does not have KDE or QT dependencies). Unfortunately, there seems to be a lull in Strigi development right now. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:30, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:43, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around with Beagle and Tracker, I prefer Tracker. Tracker is supposed to be lighter on resources than Beagle. Tracker also does not depend on Mono, if you care about that sort of thing. Another option is Strigi, which has community connections to KDE (but it does not have KDE or QT dependencies). Correction, the Strigi daemon does not have QT or KDE dependencies. The default client, however, is in QT. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... roll is my favourite for such thing.
Re: Desktop Search Engines
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:17, Jeff Zhang ideal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick rick0...@gmail.com wrote: What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... roll is my favourite for such thing. What is roll? I don't see it in Sid, and a google of roll desktop search is uninformative. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Desktop search engines
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:38:23 -0700 John Magolske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My understanding is that recoll is gui only...is that true? I've been recoll can be run from the CLI with the -t switch. I don't have much experience using it this way. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop search engines
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:38:23 -0700 John Magolske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081020 12:49]: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:25 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. ... I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Also this machine is not too powerful (500MHz G4), so I guess something lightweight would be great. I use recoll; it's not very slick, but it works. I don't have experience with any of the others. My understanding is that recoll is gui only...is that true? I've been looking for a lightweight desktop search engine that can be used at the command line. I've used glimpse, which seemed ok, but it's not a FOSS solution: http://webglimpse.net/sublicensing/licensing.html Some cli-compatible search tools I've heard about: swish++ http://swishplusplus.sourceforge.net/ tracker (...but I guess this is a GNOME thing) http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ Namazu http://www.namazu.org/ Strigi http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone had experience with any of these? Thanks, John -- I actually just installed strigi, I tried recoll but couldn't get it to work properly. Strigi is actually quite fast. I am not sure about the command line but the strigiclient is a simple gui and seems to work as expected. Also it has minimal dependencies. I haven't tried the others. Also note that today was my first day using strigi. I will be experimenting with the other alternatives and see how they go. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop search engines
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Google Desktop is desktop environment agnostic enough to work outside Linux, too. Though it's non-free, so not a part of Debian. However, it's at least free-beer, and we all use Google... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Desktop search engines
Hello, I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. After some analysis I came down to the following choices: 1. Strigi - small, lightweight, development still active, seems to be platform independent. 2. beagle - huge dependencies but widely used 3. tracker - no too many dependencies, seems like it is still developed but no new releases since a couple of months 4. doodle - smallest out of all - not updated since 2007? Right now, I'm leaning towards Strigi, doodle, tracker (in that order)... I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Also this machine is not too powerful (500MHz G4), so I guess something lightweight would be great. Thanks, Amit On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:25 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As another posted, Recoll. I've been using it for some time and it's damned fast, can do some pretty amazing searches, and it doesn't take 3 days to index my 67GB worth of crap. Give Recoll a try, it's in the Lenny repos as well as all the helpers, too. (catdoc and such). signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Desktop search engines
I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. After some analysis I came down to the following choices: 1. Strigi - small, lightweight, development still active, seems to be platform independent. 2. beagle - huge dependencies but widely used 3. tracker - no too many dependencies, seems like it is still developed but no new releases since a couple of months 4. doodle - smallest out of all - not updated since 2007? Right now, I'm leaning towards Strigi, doodle, tracker (in that order)... I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Also this machine is not too powerful (500MHz G4), so I guess something lightweight would be great. Thanks, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop search engines
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:25 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. ... I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Also this machine is not too powerful (500MHz G4), so I guess something lightweight would be great. I use recoll; it's not very slick, but it works. I don't have experience with any of the others. Thanks, Amit Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop search engines
* Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081020 12:49]: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:25 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. ... I am trying them out now but any experiences or suggestions? Also this machine is not too powerful (500MHz G4), so I guess something lightweight would be great. I use recoll; it's not very slick, but it works. I don't have experience with any of the others. My understanding is that recoll is gui only...is that true? I've been looking for a lightweight desktop search engine that can be used at the command line. I've used glimpse, which seemed ok, but it's not a FOSS solution: http://webglimpse.net/sublicensing/licensing.html Some cli-compatible search tools I've heard about: swish++ http://swishplusplus.sourceforge.net/ tracker (...but I guess this is a GNOME thing) http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ Namazu http://www.namazu.org/ Strigi http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone had experience with any of these? Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
