I have tracker and tracker-search tool 0.6.3-0ubuntu3 The bug report details said trere was no such package,but it's in synaptic, and on my system. on a Ubuntu ultimate 1.7 7.10 with a number of other distros kde,enlightenment,gnome, and edbuntu running on the same kernel.I've had 8 DVDs and 1CD as 3rd party sources. I have a 8.04 on a USB(haven't been able to boot iton the USB yet) and 3 virtual machines a few system backups Of 214GB space, there is about 130 GB used With 2 USBs I just did a disk usage analysis of my home folder and the tracker folder in ./cache was 587.6 with 33 items (I restore a lot) The biggest files include file-index.db 123 MB file-contents.db 63.2 MB file-meta.db 18 MB The file-index.db before restore was 1.9 MB 19 jan 10.1, about 90 MB on 19 Feb
in all the large files list 7 restores, and 1 current, starting at 6 Jan. I can understand tracker having a lot to keep track of, but I never use it. Why does it need all of those restores? surely they're history. besides which it can't find things I know are there The main problem is as a result I've used it twice just then to look for programs I know are installed and it tells me there are no results. Another problem may be I installed with partition all root ( I have access user and fat partitions without sudo or gksudo I checked java, because there are jave programs at home, so perhaps it can only show me files to which I have r/w access. If this is so, why does the cache need to be in my home folder. As a result I have learned to improve or take notes with a text file. I know I can solve the problem to a point by sending obsolete files to the trash (At least thats easy at home) but I am curious as to why for example there are 548 files recorded for xfractint (It's an ms-dos program, not in applications) for example and all it will show me are a text and an odt file I copied from usr/share/docs ? Of course it's probably listing a lot of files before restore, like the ones in it's cache if there are 'preferences' I might confuse it and put the cache on a USB. that will confuse it.
By the way it's another bug I know, but the disk label and device number don't change, UUID doesn't change unless by the user and the sdc can be a b depending which usb port the external disk is plugged into, The volume's size never changes, just make sizes unique somehow once introduced - can't there just be a tag that doesn't affect the way the system sees the disk that can be changed on the user desktop? There's surely a better way to assign disk numbers than load order. Different disk numbers can be annoying with backup, restore and playlists for data on external drives. And no doubt systems on usb have trouble being loaded If a new system wants to comandeer root, just make a subsidiary root folder on the first system installed. If a new system can update grub, it can update root. I don't know enough about linux or ubunbtu to know if that will work. I Just thought I'd write that while I remember because I don't feel like writing a note.
perhaps when it asked for a package they meant something else. I thought Synaptic package manager handled packages ?