How To Install tracker on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on AlmaLinux 8.
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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker.
Install tracker on AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the tracker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tracker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
