How To Install tracker-gui on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-gui on Debian 9. tracker-gui is metadata database, indexer and search tool - GNOME frontends

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-gui on Debian 9.

What is tracker-gui

tracker-gui is:

Included in this package:

  • tracker-needle: standard search tool
  • tracker-preferences: preferences editor
  • nautilus-extension: nautilus extension for tag editing

Tracker is an advanced framework for first class objects with associated metadata and tags. It provides a one stop solution for all metadata, tags, shared object databases, search tools and indexing.

There are three methods to install tracker-gui on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tracker-gui Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-gui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tracker-gui

Install tracker-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-gui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tracker-gui

Install tracker-gui Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tracker-gui

How To Uninstall tracker-gui on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tracker-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tracker-gui

Uninstall tracker-gui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tracker-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tracker-gui

Remove tracker-gui Configurations and Data

To remove tracker-gui configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tracker-gui

Remove tracker-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tracker-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tracker-gui

Dependencies

tracker-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-gui package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.