How To Install strigi-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is strigi-daemon
strigi-daemon is:
Strigi is a program for fast indexing and searching your personal data. It can gather and index information from files in the filesystem even if they are hidden in emails or archives. It comes with a Qt4 GUI, an HTML GUI and a KDE GUI.
Main features:
- very fast crawling
- very small memory footprint
- no hammering of the system
- clucene backend
- DBus and socket interfaces are available for communication between daemon and search programs
- simple interface for implementing plugins for extracting information. we’ll try to reuse the kat plugins, although native plugins will have a large speed advantage
- calculation of sha1 for every file crawled (allows fast finding of duplicates)
This package contains the Strigi daemon
There are three methods to install strigi-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install strigi-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install strigi-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strigi-daemon
Install strigi-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strigi-daemon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strigi-daemon
Install strigi-daemon 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install strigi-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strigi-daemon
How To Uninstall strigi-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the strigi-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strigi-daemon
Uninstall strigi-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strigi-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strigi-daemon
Remove strigi-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove strigi-daemon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strigi-daemon
Remove strigi-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strigi-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strigi-daemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strigi-daemon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
