Otherwise, $PATH is probably your best bet.
What exactly do you want to do once you know if it's installed? Launch it? Would it be possible to let tracker-installation and packaging configure dbus to launch it on it's first message? Don't know DBUS enough to know if this is possible for the session bus.
On 10/30/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2006/10/30, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/10/20, Edward Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
>
> Until dbus 0.9+ makes into most distros, you can check the lock file
>
> # lsof ~/.Tracker/${USER}_tracker_lock
>
> this'll return 0 if trackerd is running by ${USER}, 1 otherwise.
>
>
> Oh, perhaps I was unclear. I need to check if tracker is _installed_ (I
> could check for existence of ~/.Tracker but that dir only exists if
> trackerd has been run). I can check if trackerd is _running_ by
> dbus.NameHasOwner("org.freedesktop.Tracker"). I could manually scan the
> $PATH for trackerd but that seems unelegant...
>
you could check for usr/share/tracker (or usr/local/share/tracker)
That would work on 98% of all systems, but I would really like a completely generic test...
Cheers,
Mikkel
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