source: gnome/platform/tracker3.xml@ 91318eb

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY tracker3-download-http
           "&gnome-download-http;/tracker/3.4/tracker-&tracker3-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY tracker3-download-ftp
           "&gnome-download-ftp;/tracker/3.4/tracker-&tracker3-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY tracker3-md5sum        "161d074eeae05dffc77911f12cf5ec14">
  <!ENTITY tracker3-size          "1.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY tracker3-buildsize     "34 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY tracker3-time          "0.3 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="tracker3" xreflabel="Tracker-&tracker3-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="tracker3.html"?>


  <title>Tracker-&tracker3-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="tracker3">
    <primary sortas="a-Tracker3">Tracker3</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Tracker</title>

    <para>
      <application>Tracker</application> is the file indexing and search
      provider used in the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tracker3-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tracker3-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &tracker3-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &tracker3-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &tracker3-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &tracker3-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

<!-- Not needed with 3.0.3, but keep around just in case
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/tracker-&tracker3-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Tracker Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="json-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="libseccomp"/>, and
      <xref linkend="vala"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libsoup3"/>,
      <xref linkend="pygobject3"/>,
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>, and
      <xref linkend="tracker3-miners"/> (runtime)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="asciidoc"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
      <xref linkend="libsoup"/>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/">bash-completion</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball/">libstemmer</ulink>
      <!--<ulink url="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tap.py/">tap.py</ulink>
      (for tests)-->
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/tracker3"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Tracker</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>Tracker</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            --buildtype=release \
            -Ddocs=false        \
            -Dman=false         \
            ..                  &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr                 \
            --buildtype=release           \
            -Ddocs=false                  \
            -Dman=false                   \
            -Dsystemd_user_services=false \
            ..                            &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>. The tests
      should be run from a graphical session.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Ddocs=false</parameter>: This switch prevents the
      build process from generating API documentation. Omit this switch if you
      have <xref linkend="gtk-doc" role="nodep"/> installed and wish to
      generate and install the API documentation.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dman=false</parameter>: This switch prevents the build
      process from generating man pages. Omit this switch if you have
      <xref linkend="asciidoc" role="nodep"/> installed and wish to generate
      and install the man pages.
    </para>

    <para revision="sysv">
      <parameter>-Dsystemd_user_services=false</parameter>: This switch prevents
      the build process from installing systemd user services since they are
      useless on SysV systems.
    </para>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          tracker3
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libtracker-sparql-3.0.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/{include,lib}/tracker-3.0,
          /usr/libexec/tracker3,
          /usr/share/tracker3, and
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libtracker-sparql,ontology}-3 (optional)
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="tracker3-prog">
        <term><command>tracker3</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a control program for the indexer
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="tracker3 tracker3-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-tracker3">tracker3</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtracker3-sparql">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtracker-sparql-3.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains resource management and database functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="tracker3 libtracker3-sparql">
            <primary sortas="c-libtracker3-sparql">libtracker-sparql-3.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>