Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.0

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

Tracker-miners-2.3.3

Introduction to Tracker-miners

The Tracker-miners package contains a set of data extractors for Tracker.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.0 platform.

Package Information

Tracker-miners Dependencies

Required

gst-plugins-base-1.16.2, Tracker-2.3.4, Exempi-2.5.2, and gexiv2-0.12.1

Recommended

FFmpeg-4.3.1, FLAC-1.3.3, giflib-5.2.1, ICU-67.1, libexif-0.6.22, libgrss-0.7.0, libgxps-0.3.1, and Poppler-20.08.0

Optional

CMake-3.18.1, DConf-0.36.0, libgsf-1.14.47, libseccomp-2.5.0, taglib-1.11.1, totem-pl-parser-3.26.5, UPower-0.99.11, libcue, libosinfo, and gupnp

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tracker-miners

Installation of Tracker-miners

Install Tracker-miners by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

To test the results, as the root user, issue: ninja test. Three tests, miners-common-file-utils, test-image-1, and functional-401-extractor-flac-cuesheet, are known to fail.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dminer_rss=false: Use this option if you have not installed the recommended dependency libgrss.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libtracker-extract.so, and several modules under /usr/lib/tracker-miners-2.0.
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/tracker-miners-2.0 and /usr/share/tracker-miners

Last updated on 2020-08-26 12:25:44 -0700