Beagle Support and Installation help

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This is a continuation of the Beagle HOWTO. All support questions concerning Beagle (the desktop search application) should go here.
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matttions · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 338

I'm trying to install beagle from portage but I get this error

evan- · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Italy

i have this problem emerging beagle

matttions · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 338

Well finnally I get beagle installed and compiled... but

I got this error

kwyjibo · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Switzerland

followed this guide to install beagle, but i ran into the following error:

certocivitas · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 194

I have Beagle installed and working but it will only index my home directory. Whenever I use beagle-settings or beagle-config to add indexes I get this error:

Naib · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:11 am Post subject:

Woot it is in portage!!!
What happened to that bug innit that would hose a Ext3 partition? I stopped using it after that
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kwyjibo · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Switzerland

kdvgent · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 352 Location: Belgium

Trying to install beagle, I get the following error:

RegisG · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 34

I've got the same problem !!
Any Idea ?

kdvgent · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 352 Location: Belgium

No idea. Today there was a new ebuild, without the ~amd64 keyword. No explanation in change-log.

MADcow · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

i was wondering how i can change beagle's actions - ex: opening a website. since i don't use gnome, it doesn't work very well with the programs i want to use.
i figure i need to edit beagle's mime actions, but it doesn't seem to be using the normal mime stuff from /usr/share/mime
any suggestions?

matttions · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 338

Try gconf ... to change the browser ..
this are the info at the end of the evolution ebuild

fuchsmi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 118

where can I find the ebuild for beage 2.1?

MADcow · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject:

matttions: thanks. i'm not a gnome guy so i haven't used that before. and i don't have evolution, so i've never seen that einfo.
thanks a ton!

fuchsmi: beagle 0.2.1 (newest release) is in portage. check for app-misc/beagle. it's masked ~x86.
i'd suggest you follow the guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle
it's a little old, but most of the information is still relevant.

EDIT: i can't seem to find any keys that beagle actually listens to.

golding · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:34 am Post subject:

Any reason to keep the FF extention, or should I use the beagle-index-url script?

More to the point, what does the beagle-index-url script actually do?
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MADcow · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:

if i read the --help output correctly, it indexes one page or a list of pages.
meaning that it exists so that you can manually add pages to the index
or it's a backend for beagle's own purposes.
if either are accurate, you should keep using the firefox extension.

golding · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:26 am Post subject:

Just went looking for detailed documentation regarding beagle and could find nothing really.

The readme lists shorthand differences to the last version and nothing more, let alone going to the beagle site (any of them) for info. You were right, the --help from each command is far more cryptic than helpful, unfortunately the writers seem to have a view of assumed knowledge that we don't have.

However, I did find an XPI build for FF v1.0 to v1.5 and also extensions for Evolution, IM's and Epiphany hidden within the tar.gz.

So, no extra information, but, plenty of extra stuff, even if they chose not to tell :-)

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..... Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers.

MADcow · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:52 am Post subject:

yes, beagle has horrible documentation. this seems to be a common problem with new/small FOSS projects.
beagle, though, is neither. it has been around for years (since early 2004?) and is part of GNOME and has a corporate sponsor or two (NOVELL)

so, there's no excuse. a quick scan of CIA's CVS stats shows that they don't have many developers, though. they might be too busy making featurey-goodness and squashing bugs to make docs.
well, drat. and i want my customized actions!

lefou · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: kde-misc/kerry-0.07.ebuild

For those of you, who want using beagle with KDE, there is a KDE client now available in bugs.gentoo.org. It is called kerry and in version 0.07. It's very well integrated into KDE, at least it opens the right apps.

See Bug #124173

Please post problems with the ebuild, so that I can correct it, e.g. dependencies.

lefou

sog · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356

anybody else having a problem wherein beagle runs in debug mode by default?

when i run this:

MADcow · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:18 am Post subject:

sog: does emerge app-misc/beagle -vp show that you've compiled it with the debug useflag?

sog · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356

don't think so, MADcow - this is what i've got:

MADcow · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:15 am Post subject:

no star next to debug, so i guess you're not using a different USE setting for at than when you compiled it. sorry.

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