How To Install tracker on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tracker
tracker is:
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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
Package: tracker Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.3.4-1 Priority: optional Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1152 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46.0), libicu66 (>= 66.1~rc-1~), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.20.0), libstemmer0d (>= 0+svn527), libtracker-control-2.0-0 (= 2.3.4-1), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (= 2.3.4-1), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, shared-mime-info, libglib2.0-bin, default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus Recommends: tracker-miner-fs Filename: pool/main/t/tracker/tracker_2.3.4-1_amd64.deb Size: 269656 MD5sum: 5a5e458baec14b4a18fea75400bf577b SHA1: 78118c599fc723dfc62f52e8c8176b8b88aa09a1 SHA256: 5136978a5eb379df8a4af5bf46da51c053a02bf8a738e75997a6680572fce47e Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker Description-en: metadata database, indexer and search tool 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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install tracker on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tracker
Install tracker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tracker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tracker
Install tracker 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tracker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tracker
How To Uninstall tracker on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tracker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tracker
Uninstall tracker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tracker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tracker
Remove tracker Configurations and Data
To remove tracker configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tracker
Remove tracker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tracker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tracker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
