Re: Beagle, what can I do with it?

[taharka]

Howdy,

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:26 -0400, Bob Rowlands wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Leon  wrote:
> > Bob Goodwin  writes:
> > > I see that "beagle" is part of FC5 and has generated
> > > a lot of files but I can't find any way to make it do anything?
> > > Entering "beagle" goes no where, "bash: beagle: command not found"
> > >
> > > I don't find a "man page" for it.  Perhaps I could simply remove it via yum?
> > > Or is there some trick to getting it to do something?  Google has not
> > > helped.
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > Bob Goodwin,   Zuni, Virginia   w2bod
> >
> > Bob,
> >
> > You need to start *beagled* before you can do anything with
> > beagle. There is no beagle command actually. After you start
> > `beagled', type `beagle-search' to use it. If you don't start beagled,
> > you will get `Search service not running' error.
> >
> > --
> > Leon
>
> Where does documentation for Beagle exit? Why would it be useful? If I
> don't want it (which I suspect is the case), how do I disable and/or
> uninstall it?

The following is a SUSE linux 10.0 description of beagle. Hope it
helps ;-)

taharka@Khufu:~> rpm -qi beagle
Name        : beagle                       Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version     : 0.0.13.3                          Vendor: SUSE LINUX
Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 9.6                           Build Date: Mon 24 Apr 2006
12:49:42 AM EDT
Install date: Tue 25 Apr 2006 08:52:33 AM EDT      Build Host:
nelson.suse.de
Group       : Productivity/Other            Source RPM:
beagle-0.0.13.3-9.6.src.rpm
Size        : 1632097                          License: X11/MIT, Apache
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 24 Apr 2006 10:30:05 AM EDT, Key ID
a84edae89c800acaPackager    : http://www.suse.de/feedback
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
Summary     : Desktop search application
Description :
Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information
   space to find whatever you're looking for. Beagle can search in
   many different domains: * documents

* emails

* web history

* IM/IRC conversations

* source code

* images

* music files

* applications

* ...and much more

Authors:
--------
    Jon Trowbridge       
    Nat Friedman         
    Todd Berman          
    Michael Levy         
    Joe Gasiorek         
    Arwed V. Merkatz     
    Christopher Orr      
    Dave Camp            
    Veerapuram Varadhan  
    Michael Bayne        
    Fredrik Hedberg      
    Robert Love          
    Joe Shaw             
    Chris Lahey          
    Tuomas Kuosmanen     
    Alex Graveley        
    Adam Lofts           
    Lukas Lipka          
    Rafael Slinckx       
    James Vipond         
    Carl-Emil Lagerstedt 
Distribution: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586)
> Bob Rowlands

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.