Beagle, what can I do with it?

[Bob Goodwin]

taharka wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:26 -0400, Bob Rowlands wrote:
>   
>> On 5/1/06, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> 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 at 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       <trow at novell.com>
>     Nat Friedman         <nat at novell.com>
>     Todd Berman          <tberman at off.net>
>     Michael Levy         <mlevy at wardium.homeip.net>
>     Joe Gasiorek         <joe.gasiorek at gmail.com>
>     Arwed V. Merkatz     <v.merkatz at gmx.net>
>     Christopher Orr      <chris at protactin.co.uk>
>     Dave Camp            <dave at novell.com>
>     Veerapuram Varadhan  <vvaradhan at novell.com>
>     Michael Bayne        <mdb at samskivert.com>
>     Fredrik Hedberg      <fredrik.hedberg at hedbergs.com>
>     Robert Love          <rml at novell.com>
>     Joe Shaw             <joeshaw at novell.com>
>     Chris Lahey          <clahey at ximian.com>
>     Tuomas Kuosmanen     <tigert at tigert.priv>
>     Alex Graveley        <alex at beatniksoftware.com>
>     Adam Lofts           <adam at negligible.co.uk>
>     Lukas Lipka          <lukas at pmad.net>
>     Rafael Slinckx       <raf.raf at wol.be>
>     James Vipond         <james.vipond at ntlworld.com>
>     Carl-Emil Lagerstedt <carl-emil at lagerstedt.net>
> Distribution: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586)
>
>   
>> Bob Rowlands <rowlands.bob at gmail.com>
>>     
>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>
>   

Ok, "beagle-search" was the command I needed!  I spent the last fifteen
minutes messing with that and now I know that it's another learning 
effort. 
I will keep it and see what use I can make of it.

Thanks to all ...

Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia   w2bod