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[OT] google desktop on DebianHi, Google has a Debian version of its desktop: Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel Did anybody try it? Hugo -- Bookmark/Search this post with: (151 votes) 
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 8:20 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
> http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
>
> Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
> browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it
> again.
>
> Did anybody try it?
>
> Hugo
I saw it on slashdot, and thought about trying it. I have used Google Desktop
on my WinXP box, and I have to say, I do not like that deskbar thing, or
the 'floating taskbar' whatever-you-call it. I do, however enjoy desktop
search.
But, Kerry/Beagle are a perfect desktop search component for Linux. And there
is even, for Gnome users, the deskbar applet to make it like Mac OSX
Spotlight and the Google taskbar search.
One advantage/feature of Google Desktop is that it also indexes Gmail
messages. But I use Kmail with Gmail, so Beagle/Kerry does that, too. I guess
if you just use Gmail web mail this would be helpful. I just don't have the
need.
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wednesday 04 July 2007, wrote:
> Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
> http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
>
> Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
> browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it
> again.
>
> Did anybody try it?
I installed it. Works fine though the first index takes days.
One must initially start it off by entering /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux.
It is supposed to start with X but, at least in KDE, I had to place a script
with the above in ~/.kde/Autostart to get it going on my login.
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007, wrote:
>> Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
>> http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
>>
>> Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
>> browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it
>> again.
>>
>> Did anybody try it?
>
> I installed it. Works fine though the first index takes days.
>
> One must initially start it off by entering /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux.
>
> It is supposed to start with X but, at least in KDE, I had to place a script
> with the above in ~/.kde/Autostart to get it going on my login.
>
>
>
I did /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux but without results of messages...
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
> http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
>
> Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
> browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it
> again.
Seems to be working for me. I have tried it just now. Thanks for your email.
I have been desperately waiting for their linux version. I wonder how much
space it takes for indexing....
raju
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:03:01 -0400
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
> > http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
> >
> > Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
> > browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I
> > uninstalled it again.
>
> Seems to be working for me. I have tried it just now. Thanks for your
> email. I have been desperately waiting for their linux version. I
> wonder how much space it takes for indexing....
Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
open-source data indexing projects out there?
> raju
>
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:10 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > Seems to be working for me. I have tried it just now. Thanks for your
> > email. I have been desperately waiting for their linux version. I
> > wonder how much space it takes for indexing....
>
> Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
>
> How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> open-source data indexing projects out there?
>
personally I feel beagle is as "fast and efficient" as google-desktop. i
used google-desktop(when i was windows user) before. after switching to
Linux, i use beagle. and to me both are same. i don't want to use
google-desktop because, when there are open-source/free alternatives
present I always go for it. in this case beagle.
:)
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
>
> How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> open-source data indexing projects out there?
>
Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to closed
source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and provide all
the features.
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:34 -0400
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>
> > Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
> >
> > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> > open-source data indexing projects out there?
> >
>
> Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
> for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
> to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
> out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to closed
> source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and provide all
> the features.
I have briefly tried recoll, and I really like it so far, although I
haven't yet used it extensively (there's a debian package). You can
also check out strigi.
> raju
>
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Monday 09 July 2007 10:17 am, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:34 -0400
>
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
> > >
> > > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> > > open-source data indexing projects out there?
> >
> > Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
> > for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
> > to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
> > out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to
> > closed source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and
> > provide all the features.
>
> I have briefly tried recoll, and I really like it so far, although I
> haven't yet used it extensively (there's a debian package). You can
> also check out strigi.
Note the debian packages for recoll is in testing. There is no debian package
for strigi.
>
> > raju
> >
> > --
> > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
>
> Celejar
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:17:16 -0400
Matthew K Poer wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 10:17 am, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:34 -0400
> >
> > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > > Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
> > > >
> > > > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> > > > open-source data indexing projects out there?
> > >
> > > Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
> > > for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
> > > to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
> > > out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to
> > > closed source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and
> > > provide all the features.
> >
> > I have briefly tried recoll, and I really like it so far, although I
> > haven't yet used it extensively (there's a debian package). You can
> > also check out strigi.
>
> Note the debian packages for recoll is in testing. There is no debian package
> for strigi.
There are strigi packages in Sid.
> > > raju
> > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> > Celejar
> Matthew K Poer
Celejar
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
Matthew K Poer(matthewpoer@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 10:17 am, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:35:34 -0400
> >
> > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > > Sorry if I'm ignorant but,
> > > >
> > > > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other
> > > > open-source data indexing projects out there?
> > >
> > > Actually I did not know that there are open source alternatives available
> > > for google-desktop-search. Only upon reading Matthew Poer's email, I came
> > > to know that there is such a thing called beagle. Anyway, I am trying it
> > > out now and hope it works. I also prefer open source alternatives to
> > > closed source software as long as they efficiently perform the job and
> > > provide all the features.
> >
> > I have briefly tried recoll, and I really like it so far, although I
> > haven't yet used it extensively (there's a debian package). You can
> > also check out strigi.
>
> Note the debian packages for recoll is in testing. There is no debian package
> for strigi.
There is in testing
VT3 root-4-(TESTING):~# srch strigi
libstrigihtmlgui-dev - development files for Strigi Desktop Search
libstrigihtmlgui0 - library for writing html clients for Strigi Desktop Search
strigi-applet - KDE applet for Strigi Desktop Search
strigi-client - Qt4 client for Strigi Desktop Search
strigi-daemon - fast indexing and searching tool for your personal data (daemon)
strigi-plugins - plugins for Strigi Desktop Search
Wayne
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[OT] google desktop on Debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote in Article posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
> Hi,
>
> Google has a Debian version of its desktop:
> http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
>
> Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel
> browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it
> again.
>
> Did anybody try it?
It depends on Gnome or KDE, I think. Something that provides a system tray.
I was unaware that Google came up with a Linux version of Desktop, but I'm
glad to see they created a Debian package. I've just installed it and I'm
trying it out now...
Kind of disappointed they went with GTK (it's fugly on a Motif scale IMO),
and it doesn't seem to support searching across PCs like the Windows
version does yet.
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