How To Install tracker-needle.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-needle.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tracker-needle.x86_64 is Tracker search tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-needle.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tracker-needle.x86_64`

Graphical frontend to tracker search.

We can use yum to install tracker-needle.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker-needle.x86_64.

Install tracker-needle.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 tracker-needle.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tracker-needle.x86_64

How To Uninstall tracker-needle.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tracker-needle.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tracker-needle.x86_64

tracker-needle.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/tracker-needle
/usr/share/appdata/tracker-needle.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/tracker-needle.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-needle.1.gz
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-needle.ui

References

tracker-needle.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-needle.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.