Strigi v. 0.5.5 Strigi Search Mini Howto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.04 and kde)  :-)      Back to Main Page

This is a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to the Internet etc.

This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.

There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to  write this howto.

To check specific words you may try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  (search).    



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Install following

To put a start icon on your Desktop

To get the icon in place on the Desktop

To open the strigi search dialog click on the "strigi" icon

To make a search

The Status dialog:

The Preferences dialog

To add a directory to be indexed


Strigi is a very fast indexing and search program, so you can quickly find your own data, e.g. old e-mails or text files etc.

Install following with synaptic (or adept):

Strigi-daemon, strigi-applet,  strigi- plugins and strigi-utils. (do not install strigi-client, as it is for demo purposes)

Also Libclucene 0.9.15 or newer and Libmagic must be installed.

After installation put a start icon on your Desktop, by right clicking on the desktop:                                    Back to the  Index of Page

Then choose "Link to Location (URL)"

File name: Write "strigi",

Enter link to location (URL) (see above): Write "strigi:/" - click "OK", and the  "strigi start" icon is made .

To get the icon in place on the Desktop, right click on the desktop and choose: Icons - Sort Icons - By Name.

Then again right click on the desktop and choose: Refresh Desktop, and the Desktop is cleared for black spots.

Now click on the "strigi" icon, and the strigi search dialog opens (below):                                                        Back to the  Index of Page



We will now make a search on "79.5" (just an example of a number in an existing e-mail), and see the result (below):
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Note: The result is split up in groups "Mail" and "Text"  etc. (above)

Click on the blue text (above), to see the content of the found e-mail (see below):
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Besides the search dialog there some more dialogs: status, preferences, help and about - we will first look at "status" (below):

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The "Status" dialog:


In the "status" dialog (above) you can stop and start the  program, and you can index/reindex by clicking on the "Start indexing" button.

Besides you can se the result of the latest indexing (the size of the whole index is 130 MB), and the indexing took, on my computer aprox. 6 min.

In the "preferences" dialog (below) you can edit which directories you want to be indexed (see below):
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To "delete directory" means only, to remove it from being indexed by strigi - and the "/boot/" directory is going to be added (see above) - then

click "add directory":                                                                                                                                                    Back to the  Index of Page



As you can see, the "/boot/" directory is added, and please also NOTE the text: "Don't forget to start indexing", so you will have to go back to the

"status" dialog, and start indexing (once more to get the new folder included into the index list).

There are some other programs alike this, among others "Recoll" which is also good (it takes a lot of space, aprox 100 pct. extra, but it is almost

unlimited in the numbers of pages, which can be indexed - the documentation tells) - I have tried both.
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8/2007