How To Install tracker-miners on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miners in AlmaLinux 8. tracker-miners is Tracker miners and metadata extractors

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miners on AlmaLinux 8.

What is tracker-miners

Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database and search tool. This package contains various miners and metadata extractors for tracker.

We can use yum or dnf to install tracker-miners on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker-miners.

Install tracker-miners 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-miners using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tracker-miners

Install tracker-miners 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-miners using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tracker-miners

How To Uninstall tracker-miners on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tracker-miners

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miners on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.