How To Install tracker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on CentOS 7.
What is tracker
Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. 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. It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata. retrieve and search all types of files and other first class objects Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. 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. It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata. retrieve and search all types of files and other first class objects
We can use yum or dnf to install tracker on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker.
Install tracker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tracker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tracker
Install tracker 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 tracker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tracker
How To Uninstall tracker on CentOS 7
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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
