How To Install tracker on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Fedora 34.
What is tracker
Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database and search tool. It consists of a common object database that allows entities to have an almost infinite number of properties, metadata (both embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive database of keywords/tags and links to other entities. It provides additional features for file based objects including context linking and audit trails for a file object. Metadata indexers are provided by the tracker-miners package.
We can use yum or dnf to install tracker on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker.
Install tracker on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tracker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tracker
Install tracker on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tracker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tracker
How To Uninstall tracker on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tracker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tracker
tracker Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tracker3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/d1b097a2cbf75dbec136d4cd91d867d3dc55e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/ab9aa37d738c44ca98aeac5b62710eac7f17fe
/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-xdg-portal-3.service
/usr/libexec/tracker-xdg-portal-3
/usr/libexec/tracker3
/usr/libexec/tracker3/endpoint
/usr/libexec/tracker3/export
/usr/libexec/tracker3/help
/usr/libexec/tracker3/import
/usr/libexec/tracker3/sparql
/usr/libexec/tracker3/sql
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tracker3
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.portal.Tracker.service
/usr/share/doc/tracker
/usr/share/doc/tracker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/tracker
/usr/share/licenses/tracker/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/tracker/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tracker3.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-xdg-portal-3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker3-endpoint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker3-export.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker3-import.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker3-sparql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker3-sql.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.