How To Install tracker on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker in Fedora 36. tracker is Desktop-neutral metadata database and search tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker.

Install tracker on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tracker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tracker

Install tracker on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove tracker

tracker Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/tracker3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/19227cc69a774e364046a0a03eab9775018f59
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/15110c03284f9fb4db4f7c87d37fbca25e1a74
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).