How To Install strigi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi
on CentOS 7.
What is strigi
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
or dnf
to install strigi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strigi.
Install strigi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install strigi
using yum
by running the following command:
Install strigi on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install strigi
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall strigi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the strigi
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.