How To Install tracker-miner-fs on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miner-fs on Kali Linux. tracker-miner-fs is metadata database, indexer and search tool - filesystem indexer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miner-fs on Kali Linux.

What is tracker-miner-fs

tracker-miner-fs is:

This package contains the tracker indexer for indexing your files and folders.

Tracker is an advanced framework for first class objects with associated metadata and tags. It provides a one stop solution for all metadata, tags, shared object databases, search tools and indexing.

There are three methods to install tracker-miner-fs on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tracker-miner-fs Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-miner-fs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tracker-miner-fs

Install tracker-miner-fs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-miner-fs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tracker-miner-fs

Install tracker-miner-fs Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tracker-miner-fs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tracker-miner-fs

How To Uninstall tracker-miner-fs on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tracker-miner-fs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tracker-miner-fs

Uninstall tracker-miner-fs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tracker-miner-fs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tracker-miner-fs

Remove tracker-miner-fs Configurations and Data

To remove tracker-miner-fs configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tracker-miner-fs

Remove tracker-miner-fs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tracker-miner-fs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tracker-miner-fs

Dependencies

tracker-miner-fs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miner-fs package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.