How To Install tracker-miner-fs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miner-fs on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install tracker-miner-fs on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tracker-miner-fs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
