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strigi


Information about the package, strigi, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The strigi package is designed for, A desktop search program.


Package Name:

strigi

Summary:

A desktop search program

Description:

Strigi is a fast and light desktop search engine. It can handle a large range of file formats such as emails, office documents, media files, and file archives. It can index files that are embedded in other files. This means email attachments and files in zip files are searchable as if they were normal files on your harddisk. Strigi is normally run as a background daemon that can be accessed by many other programs at once. In addition to the daemon, Strigi comes with powerful replacements for the popular unix commands 'find' and 'grep'. These are called 'deepfind' and 'deepgrep' and can search inside files just like the strigi daemon can.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.7.0

Release:

2.el6

Size:

249 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for strigi


Control the strigi package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install strigi

This command will install strigi on the server.

yum remove strigi

This command will un-install strigi on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove strigi, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove strigi

This command will un-install strigi on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove strigi when using the -y flag.

yum update strigi

This command will update strigi to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove strigi, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update strigi

This command will update strigi to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove strigi when using the -y flag.

yum info strigi

This command will show you core information about the strigi package.

yum deplist strigi

This command will show you the dependencies for strigi. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update strigi

This command will check if there is an update waiting on strigi. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.