Hi,
Attached, please find 2 website patchs. These move some info out of
"Download" section into "Getting Started" which I think is more
relevant. There's also some more improvements in terms of readability,
I think.
thanks
--- tracker-website.4998/download.html 2007-02-08 19:12:08.000000000 +0200
+++ tracker-website/download.html 2007-02-08 21:17:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -37,48 +37,12 @@
<h3>Download</h3>
<p>Here is the latest stable release for Tracker.</p>
-<p>Note that the deb's and the rpm's may be outdated.</p>
-
-<h4>Tarball</h4>
+<p>Note that the deb's may be outdated.</p>
+<h4>Source tarball</h4>
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.4.tar.gz";>http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.4.tar.gz</a>
-<h4>Debian i386</h4>
-Experimental debian repo can be found at:
-<div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ unstable main</div>
-
-<h4>Ubuntu i386</h4>
-<ul>
- <li>
- <p>Feisty 7.04: Tracker is in the universe. </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Edgy 6.10: repo</p><div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ edgy main</div>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>Dappper 6.06: repo</p><div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main</div>
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Debian Based Distro or non i386 Debian and Ubuntu</h4>
-<p>Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:</p>
- <div class="terminal">
- deb-src http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main
- </div>
-<p>Download the build-dependancies</p>
- <div class="terminal">
- sudo apt-get build-dep tracker
- </div>
-<p>Compile the software:</p>
- <div class="terminal">
- sudo apt-get source -b tracker
- </div>
-
-<h4>Fedora 5 < 6</h4>
-<p>Install from Fedora Extras</p>
-
-<h4>Gentoo</h4>
-<p>Tracker is now included in portage. To install, run:</p><div class="terminal">emerge tracker</div>
-
+<h4>Binary packages</h4>
+Head over to this <a href="http://debs.michaelbiebl.de";>link</a> for Debian and Ubuntu debs, but please see <a href=start.html>Getting Startted</a> to see if there's an easier way to obtain Tracker.
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--- tracker-website.4998/start.html 2007-02-08 18:05:32.000000000 +0200
+++ tracker-website/start.html 2007-02-08 21:01:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -65,37 +65,124 @@
</li>
</ol>
-<h4>Installing using packages</h4>
-<p>Refer to the <a href="download.html">download</a> to see how to download the tracker-packages for your favourite distribution. Here we display only how the tracker packages are organized.</p>
+<h4>Binary repositories</h4>
-<p>Every distribution has its own way to pack tracker, however you can recognise two main part:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><strong>Debian Sid</strong> (x86 arch) - add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list</p>
+ <div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ unstable main</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><strong>Ubuntu Feisty</strong> (x86 arch) - available in Universe.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><strong>Ubuntu Edgy</strong> (x86 arch) - add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list</p>
+ <div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ edgy main</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><strong>Ubuntu Dapper</strong> (x86 arch) - add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list</p>
+ <div class="terminal">deb http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><strong>Fedora 5 & 6</strong> - available in Fedora Extras.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<h4>Debian-based distros OR non-x86 Debian and Ubuntu systems</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">deb-src http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/ dapper main</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
<ul>
- <li><strong>tracker</strong> -- Usually this one has no dependencies related to a Desktop Enviroment and is the "desktop agnostic part". This basicly means you can install on KDE/XFCE/Fluxbox/* without installing any GNOME-related dependecies.</li>
- <li><strong>tracker-search-tool</strong> -- the Graphical User Interface to search using tracker. This has GNOME-dependencies</li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Download the build-dependancies:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">sudo apt-get build-dep tracker</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Compilation:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">sudo apt-get source -b tracker</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Gentoo</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Tracker is now included in portage. To install, run:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">emerge tracker</div>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<p>We want to keep the indexer free from any specific dependences related to a particular Desktop Enviroment.</p>
+<h4>Binary Installation</h4>
-<p>As example we write how to install using a Debian/Ubuntu system</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Installation of the indexer and CLI search tool on Debian/Ubuntu system:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">apt-get install tracker tracker-utils</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Installation of the indexer and GUI search tool(s) on Debian/Ubuntu system:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">apt-get install tracker tracker-utils tracker-search-tool libdeskbar-tracker</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
<ul>
- <li><div class="terminal">apt-get install tracker tracker-utils</div> to install the indexer and the command line</li>
- <li><div class="terminal">apt-get install tracker tracker-utils tracker-search-tool libdeskbar-tracker</div> to install the Gnome GUI and the deskbar handler.</li>
+ <li><strong>tracker</strong> -- Usually this one has no dependencies related to a Desktop Enviroment and is the "desktop agnostic part". This basically means you can install on KDE/XFCE/Fluxbox/* without installing any GNOME-related dependecies.</li>
+ <li><strong>tracker-search-tool</strong> -- The GNOME-dependent GUI search tool.</li>
+ <li><strong>libdeskbar-tracker</strong> -- Tracker Deskbar support.</li>
</ul>
-<h3>Run tracker</h3>
-<p>To run tracker simply run:</p><div class="terminal">trackerd <</div>
-<p><strong>Tracker is indexing your home directory by default</strong></p>
-<p>To get a view of what Tracker is doing run:</p><div class="terminal">tail -f ~/.Tracker/logfile</div>
-<p>To search you can use :</p>
+<h3>Using Tracker</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>To run Tracker which should start indexing your home directory, simply run:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">trackerd &</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
<ul>
- <li>the command line <div class="terminal">tracker-search</div></li>
- <li>the tracker-search-tool <div class="terminal">tracker-search-tool</div> <em>(If you have installed the relevant package)</em></li>
+ <li>
+ <p>To get a glimpse Tracker's activities, run:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">tail -f ~/.Tracker/logfile</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>For command line search, run:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">tracker-search</div>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>For GUI search, run:</p>
+ <div class="terminal">tracker-search-tool</div>
+ <em>(this should be available in your menu under Applications -> Accessories on GNOME)</em>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<p>For more information in how configure tracker read the README file or refer to <a href="documentation.html">Documentation</a>.</p>
-<p>For more information about the others GUI available to search with tracker refer to <a href="documentation.html#other_gui">Documention Other GUI</a> </p>
+<h3>More info</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>For information on how to configure Tracker, see the README file in the root of the source directory OR refer to <a href="documentation.html">Documentation</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>For information about other GUI search tools supporting Tracker, refer to <a href="documentation.html#other_gui">Other GUI's</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
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