The Tracker-miners package contains a set of data extractors for Tracker.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker-miners/3.6/tracker-miners-3.6.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 36b1149a9b10ee3db3e3aa6d8a95c5dc
Download size: 7.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 85 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with parallelism=4; add as much as 1.0 SBU for tests, dependent on disk speed)
gst-plugins-base-1.22.7, Tracker-3.6.0, Exempi-2.6.4, and gexiv2-0.14.2
giflib-5.2.1, gst-plugins-good-1.22.7 (runtime), gst-libav-1.22.7 (runtime), ICU-74.1, libexif-0.6.24, libgrss-0.7.0, libgxps-0.3.2, libseccomp-2.5.4, and Poppler-23.11.0
asciidoc-10.2.0, CMake-3.27.8, DConf-0.40.0, FFmpeg-6.1, libgsf-1.14.51, NetworkManager-1.44.2, taglib-1.13.1, totem-pl-parser-3.26.6, UPower-1.90.2, libcue, libitpcdata, libosinfo, and gupnp
If you plan to run the tests, some timeouts are too short when
using spinning disks. There are two places where timeouts are
used: first, individual tests inside a group of tests have a
default timeout of 10s. This can be changed by setting the environment
variable TRACKER_TESTS_AWAIT_TIMEOUT to the desired
value when running the tests (see below). Second, a global timeout
for a group of tests is fixed at configuration time. The default value
in the functional-tests
directory (other directories have only short lived tests) may be
increased with the following command (replace 200 with a value
suitable for your machine):
sed -i s/120/200/ tests/functional-tests/meson.buildInstall Tracker-miners by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dman=false \
.. &&
ninjaTo test the results, issue (adjust the individual test timeout to a value suitable for your machine, see the note above):
dbus-run-session env TRACKER_TESTS_AWAIT_TIMEOUT=20 ninja test &&
rm -rf ~/tracker-testsThe tests create files in the user directory (up to 24 MB), so they have to be removed afterwards.
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.
-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.
-Dseccomp=false: This option disables the seccomp system
call filter. On some architectures, such as i686 and ARM, the functions
that tracker-miners uses are not guarded properly, and tracker-miners
will get killed with a SIGSYS as a result.
-Dminer_rss=false: Use this option if you have not
installed the recommended dependency libgrss.