Tracker is the file indexing and search provider used in the GNOME desktop environment.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/3.4/tracker-3.4.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/tracker/3.4/tracker-3.4.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 161d074eeae05dffc77911f12cf5ec14
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 34 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)
JSON-GLib-1.6.6, libseccomp-2.5.4, and Vala-0.56.7
gobject-introspection-1.76.1, ICU-73.1, libsoup-3.4.2, PyGObject-3.44.1, SQLite-3.41.2, and tracker-miners-3.4.3 (runtime)
asciidoc-10.2.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, libsoup-2.74.3, bash-completion, and libstemmer
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tracker3
Install Tracker by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Ddocs=false \
-Dman=false \
.. &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests should be run from a graphical session.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Ddocs=false: This switch
prevents the build process from generating API documentation. Omit
this switch if you have GTK-Doc-1.33.2
installed and wish to generate and install the API documentation.
-Dman=false: This switch
prevents the build process from generating man pages. Omit this
switch if you have asciidoc-10.2.0 installed and wish to
generate and install the man pages.