How To Install doodled on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install doodled on Debian 11. doodled is Desktop Search Engine (daemon)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doodled on Debian 11.

What is doodled

doodled is:

It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor plugins. It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.

This is the daemon to keep the doodle database automagically up-to-date.

There are three methods to install doodled on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install doodled Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doodled

Install doodled Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install doodled using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install doodled

Install doodled 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 doodled using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doodled

How To Uninstall doodled on Debian 11

To uninstall only the doodled package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove doodled

Uninstall doodled And Its Dependencies

To uninstall doodled and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doodled

Remove doodled Configurations and Data

To remove doodled configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge doodled

Remove doodled configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doodled

Dependencies

doodled have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install doodled package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.