Comments on: Google Desktop for Linux http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:39:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-5002 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:11:03 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-5002 Topper, thanks for sharing this! I don't use gentoo, but I'm sure someone will find this useful. :) Topper, thanks for sharing this! I don’t use gentoo, but I’m sure someone will find this useful. )

]]> by: Topper Harley http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-5001 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:20:19 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-5001 Here is a working ebuild for gentoo: google-desktop-1.0.1.0060.ebuild <pre lang="bash"># Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ inherit rpm MY_P="${PN}-linux-${PV}" DESCRIPTION="Google desktop search" HOMEPAGE="http://desktop.google.com/linux" SRC_URI="http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/${MY_P}.rpm" LICENSE="Google" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86" IUSE="" DEPEND="" RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.0" src_install() { cd ${WORKDIR} dodir /opt/google/desktop cp -R opt/google/desktop/* "${D}"/opt/google/desktop dodir /var/cache/google/desktop keepdir /var/cache/google/desktop insinto /etc/cron.hourly doins etc/cron.hourly/gdl-update dosym /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux /usr/bin/gdlinux }</pre> Here is a working ebuild for gentoo:

google-desktop-1.0.1.0060.ebuild

# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
 
inherit rpm
 
MY_P="${PN}-linux-${PV}"
 
DESCRIPTION="Google desktop search"
HOMEPAGE="http://desktop.google.com/linux"
SRC_URI="http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/${MY_P}.rpm"
 
LICENSE="Google"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
IUSE=""
 
DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="&gt;=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.0"
 
src_install() {
    cd ${WORKDIR}
    dodir /opt/google/desktop
    cp -R opt/google/desktop/* "${D}"/opt/google/desktop
    dodir /var/cache/google/desktop
    keepdir /var/cache/google/desktop
    insinto /etc/cron.hourly
    doins etc/cron.hourly/gdl-update
    dosym /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux /usr/bin/gdlinux
}
]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4997 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:52:16 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4997 I'm pretty sure I had xpdf. I was also annoyed at Beagle's inability to properly index my Kmail email. It would index some emails (incidentally most of them from 2005) and then declare it's done. None of the new messages were included in the index, and I couldn't find any correspondence regarding recent issues. So yeah, it does support more file types. But I just couldn't get it to work, and I didn't feel like spending inordinate amount of time to troubleshoot it. I really wanted to like Beagle. And it may still be a valid solution for some. For some reason though it just didn't work properly on my box. I’m pretty sure I had xpdf. I was also annoyed at Beagle’s inability to properly index my Kmail email. It would index some emails (incidentally most of them from 2005) and then declare it’s done. None of the new messages were included in the index, and I couldn’t find any correspondence regarding recent issues.

So yeah, it does support more file types. But I just couldn’t get it to work, and I didn’t feel like spending inordinate amount of time to troubleshoot it. I really wanted to like Beagle. And it may still be a valid solution for some. For some reason though it just didn’t work properly on my box.

]]> by: Sean Carlos http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4995 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:29:32 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4995 I suspect the problem you had with Beagle was with missing programs required for complete runtime processing, i.e. xpdf in the case of PDF files. See the <a href="http://beagle-project.org/Optional_prerequisites" rel="nofollow">Optional prerequisites</a> page for more. I would agree that <a href="http://www.antezeta.com/beagle-fedora.html" rel="nofollow">getting up and running with Beagle</a> is far from simple. That said, Beagle currently supports many <a href="http://www.antezeta.com/blog/google-desktop-search/" rel="nofollow">more file types than Google Desktop Search</a> for Linux. Not an easy choice. I suspect the problem you had with Beagle was with missing programs required for complete runtime processing, i.e. xpdf in the case of PDF files. See the Optional prerequisites page for more.

I would agree that getting up and running with Beagle is far from simple. That said, Beagle currently supports many more file types than Google Desktop Search for Linux. Not an easy choice.

]]> by: University Update - Linux - Google Desktop for Linux http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4994 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:48:36 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/28/google-desktop-for-linux/#comment-4994 [...] YouTube Link to Article linux Google Desktop for Linux » Posted at Terminally Incoherent on Thursday, June 28, 2007 Google Desktop for Linux June 28th, 2007 7:21 PM by Luke I got a nice surprise today ... their desktop search tool on Linux. So I immediately went and downloaded a copy. I like Google Desktop Search ... this is probably the first linux application that forced me to “reboot” to complete the installation. Ok, it didn’ View Entire Article » [...] […] YouTube Link to Article linux Google Desktop for Linux » Posted at Terminally Incoherent on Thursday, June 28, 2007 Google Desktop for Linux June 28th, 2007 7:21 PM by Luke I got a nice surprise today … their desktop search tool on Linux. So I immediately went and downloaded a copy. I like Google Desktop Search … this is probably the first linux application that forced me to “reboot” to complete the installation. Ok, it didn’ View Entire Article » […]

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