Re: Interesting utilities

Le 16/10/11 03:24, Kaz Kylheku a écrit :
Maybe you have an example?

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=file+indexing&submit=Search

45 hits, some of them relevant-looking.

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=file+search&submit=Search

251 hits.

Man, you really are still a goof, sorry to say.

Windows has dynamic file indexing since Vista, if not before.

Sure sure....

In Wikipedia the program "tracker" is listed as a search utility for
linux.

Downloaded the package from
http://projects.gnome.org/tracker
Then:

bzip2 -d tracker-0.1.12.bz2
untarred result
changed to the direzctory and typed ./configure
../configure fails with:
configure: error: glib-compile-schemas not found.

Searched google for that.

After much searching I found out that actually I have that package
installed in /usr/bin.

Apparently I am not the only one havinng that problem, there are many
hits about that error message. But there are no solutions. Some of
the solutions point to upgrading to a newer version of the OS...
but I am running already the latest Ubuntu (I try to keep current since
under linux if you aren't upgrading every 2-3 months the OS nothing
will work any more)

The problem is that I have the package but the
configure script doesn't fdind it (it is in /usr/bin... I really do not
understand why that directory is not searched)

I edit the configure script and see that there is an environment
variable that should contain the path to those "compile-schemas"
I set the variable, rerun, nothing, same error.

Now I discover that I am not really a shell/ configure / language
expert. I can't figure out why the thing isn't found I give up.

Wasted time: Approx 1 hour.

mdfind came with the mac already, nothing to do for me.

But of course I am a "goofer"...

Look Mr Kaz, I am well aware that an indexing utility could
exist for linux even one that after several hours of work
could even work better than mdfind.

But... really, I do not feel like wasting more time in it.
Yes, it is free, I did not pay for my Ubuntu version. But I
have learned the hard way that unless you want to specialize in
linux administration you will be wasting so much time with it that it
is just not worth trying to do things like this for somebody
that is not a linux admin...


I wonder how would I explain the usage of the linux utility to
my wife...

"Look Annie, just download that source package"

Then, there is no install program, you have to type
../configure

etc...
`
Good luck with that

:-(

jacob
.

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