How To Install strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is strigi.x86_64
Strigi is a fast and light desktop search engine. It can handle a large range of file formats such as emails, office documents, media files, and file archives. It can index files that are embedded in other files. This means email attachments and files in zip files are searchable as if they were normal files on your harddisk. Strigi is normally run as a background daemon that can be accessed by many other programs at once. In addition to the daemon, Strigi comes with powerful replacements for the popular unix commands ‘find’ and ‘grep’. These are called ‘deepfind’ and ‘deepgrep’ and can search inside files just like the strigi daemon can.
We can use yum to install strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strigi.x86_64.
Install strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install strigi.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install strigi.x86_64
How To Uninstall strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the strigi.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove strigi.x86_64
strigi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/xdg/autostart/strigi-daemon.desktop
/usr/bin/deepfind
/usr/bin/deepgrep
/usr/bin/rdfindexer
/usr/bin/strigiclient
/usr/bin/strigicmd
/usr/bin/strigidaemon
/usr/bin/xmlindexer
/usr/share/applications/strigiclient.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.xesam.searcher.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/vandenoever.strigi.service
/usr/share/doc/strigi-0.7.7
/usr/share/doc/strigi-0.7.7/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/strigi-0.7.7/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/strigi-0.7.7/ChangeLog
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.