How To Install tracker on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Rocky Linux 8. tracker is Desktop-neutral metadata database and search tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tracker.

Install tracker on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tracker

tracker Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
/usr/bin/tracker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/a01f396733db49e2940c5801f7af3a974472f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/db74eaa0a662c20cb4badd32cd3a43fd1cf12f
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/73cbbb9a8af99c4e7b144365b640f7c0c95feb
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/d4a73baf74161054235b0bf74b32cf08ca7629
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/3af71f990ca702a72ac5147cf0db5f65f018b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/bf76dee94cb1aa3c9d031bac3957322e9d8757
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/439d897aa0b8fab0b7472610187404baef9861
/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-store.service
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Tracker-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/TrackerControl-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/TrackerMiner-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libtracker-control-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtracker-control-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib64/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib64/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib64/tracker-2.0
/usr/lib64/tracker-2.0/libtracker-common.so.0
/usr/lib64/tracker-2.0/libtracker-common.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0
/usr/lib64/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/tracker-store
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tracker
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Tracker1.service
/usr/share/doc/tracker
/usr/share/doc/tracker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.DB.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.FTS.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.Store.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/tracker
/usr/share/licenses/tracker/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-reset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-sparql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-sql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-status.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-store.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-tag.1.gz
/usr/share/tracker
/usr/share/tracker/domain-ontologies
/usr/share/tracker/domain-ontologies/default.rule
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/30-nie.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/30-nie.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/32-nco.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/32-nco.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/33-nfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/33-nfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/34-nmo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/34-nmo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/35-ncal.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/35-ncal.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/36-scal.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/36-scal.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/37-nid3.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/37-nid3.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/38-nmm.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/38-nmm.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/39-mto.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/39-mto.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/40-mlo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/40-mlo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/41-mfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/41-mfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/89-mtp.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/89-mtp.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/90-tracker.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/90-tracker.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/91-maemo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/91-maemo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/92-slo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/92-slo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/93-libosinfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/93-libosinfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.da
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.de
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.en
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.es
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.fi
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.fr
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.hu
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.it
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.nb
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.nl
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.pt
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.ru
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.sv
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-backup.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-miner.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-resources.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-statistics.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-status.xml
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
/usr/bin/tracker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/fb44520487ce6fdacba9466e8503f8c143f0ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/54b528224dc3d3cd286bff2adf92900b989259
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/3faa471d1335e4c897c7542a2c9bc49d97bbbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/da77b0b8b8cedf6acbe3e3bd659160db4cf252
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/ffb08b2957d019b1ab9f1dcfcc69180d6c2b86
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/cff80b7ded9a7de4c510e9ae3861ed6d534b3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/d20e06aa952af9aea84bcafe82bb9458585281
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Tracker-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/TrackerControl-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/TrackerMiner-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libtracker-control-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libtracker-control-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0.105.0
/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-store.service
/usr/lib/tracker-2.0
/usr/lib/tracker-2.0/libtracker-common.so.0
/usr/lib/tracker-2.0/libtracker-common.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0
/usr/lib/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/tracker-store
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tracker
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Tracker1.service
/usr/share/doc/tracker
/usr/share/doc/tracker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tracker/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.DB.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.FTS.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.Store.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/tracker
/usr/share/licenses/tracker/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tracker.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-reset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-sparql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-sql.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-status.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-store.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tracker-tag.1.gz
/usr/share/tracker
/usr/share/tracker/domain-ontologies
/usr/share/tracker/domain-ontologies/default.rule
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/30-nie.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/30-nie.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/32-nco.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/32-nco.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/33-nfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/33-nfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/34-nmo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/34-nmo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/35-ncal.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/35-ncal.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/36-scal.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/36-scal.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/37-nid3.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/37-nid3.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/38-nmm.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/38-nmm.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/39-mto.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/39-mto.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/40-mlo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/40-mlo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/41-mfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/41-mfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/89-mtp.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/89-mtp.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/90-tracker.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/90-tracker.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/91-maemo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/91-maemo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/92-slo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/92-slo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/93-libosinfo.description
/usr/share/tracker/ontologies/nepomuk/93-libosinfo.ontology
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.da
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.de
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.en
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.es
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.fi
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.fr
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.hu
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.it
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.nb
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.nl
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.pt
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.ru
/usr/share/tracker/stop-words/stopwords.sv
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-backup.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-miner.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-resources.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-statistics.xml
/usr/share/tracker/tracker-status.xml

References

tracker website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.