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/3.3/tracker-3.3.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/tracker/3.3/tracker-3.3.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 40273333eb3000d435b83e6debf8b895
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 102 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with tests)
JSON-GLib-1.6.6, libseccomp-2.5.4, and Vala-0.56.3
gobject-introspection-1.74.0, ICU-71.1, libsoup-2.74.2, SQLite-3.39.3, and tracker-miners-3.3.1 (runtime)
asciidoc-10.2.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, libsoup-3.0.8 (may be used instead of or in addition to libsoup-2.74.2, but a build without libsoup-2.x is not tested), 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 --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Ddocs=false \
-Dman=false \
-Dsystemd_user_services=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.
-Dsystemd_user_services=false: This
switch prevents the build process from installing systemd user
services since they are useless on SysV systems.