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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install strigi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install strigi
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install strigi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install strigi
How To Uninstall strigi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the strigi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove strigi
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
