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- Running Beagle for Debian
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- 1. Extended attributes
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- You also have to remount the filesystem in which /home resides with extended
- attributes support. For that, add "user_xattr" to options field for your
- /home mount point in /etc/fstab file and remount the filesystem.
-
- One example could be:
- /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults,user_xattr 0 2
-
- # mount -o remount /home
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- If you are using XFS or JFS in your /home you don't need to make any change,
- as those filesystems has extended attributes enabled by default.
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- 2. Running
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- After this, you only have to run "beagled" in a terminal.
- If you are using GNOME, you will have to go to Session Manager, in
- Desktop->Preferences, and check if it is listed in start programs tab, and
- if it is enabled (default: true).
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- Also, in KDE, you will have to go to session manager.
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- 3. System Wide indexing
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- By default, beagle will index your system for apps and for documentation,
- so they are also displayed in your searches, in a daily basis. To control
- what is going to be indexed and how, please check crawl-* files in
- /etc/beagle directory.
-
- This process is run by a no-priviledges, system, beagleindex user.
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- 4. Searching
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- For performing searches, you can use beagle-search tool from Apps->Accesories menu.
- If this is the first time you run beagle, you will need to wait a bit for the
- daemon to index data from different locations before you can get any result.
-
- By default, beagle-search util will be used. This is a Gnome UI, which does
- integrate with Gnome desktop, so it uses Gnome desktop preferences to
- perform tasks like opening folders or documents. You have to open a
- Nautilus folder and go to its preferences to change that behaviour.
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- You can also use other UIs for searching, like "kerry" package, which
- is a beagle search UI aimed for people using KDE desktop.
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- 5. Evolution Data Backend
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-
- From beagle 0.1.2-3 version, Evolution Data backend has been split in its own
- package: beagle-backend-evolution. If you want to index calendar and contacts
- from Evolution, you will need to install it.
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- 6. Storage of Cache Files
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- Beagle generates a bunch of cache files in which it stores different indexes. If
- you desire to store that in other different place than ~/.beagle, which is
- the default, you will have to set BEAGLE_STORAGE variable to point to the
- desired place you want to store those files.
-
- Also, if you are using system-wide crawl (default: yes), its indexes will be
- created in /var/cache/beagle.
-
- -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>, Sun, 06 May 2006 10:55:13 +0200
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