are tool to bring you this cool gnome based file indexing and searching tool… that i generally distrust X-D
funny enough: windows and osx come with such “we index and md5sum every single file on your computer” as well… suspiciously. i wonder if android comes with such doubtful services enabled per default and hard to remove?
in our case it’s all about this system: tracker miner store
while this seems the fancy gui version of updatedb… it’s internal workings are obscure to me so i am not going to use it X-D ( i am fine with … search now for this or that filename or this and that content via file managers such as caja or nautilus or script, instead of constant (re)indexing of everything in case you need it)
getting rid of this is not that easy… as it says “dependencies”.
# probe if it is running ps uax|grep tracker # kill it killall tracker-miner-fs killall tracker-store # checkout what packages with that name are installed dpkg -l | grep tracker root@debian7:/home/user# dpkg -l | grep tracker ii libtracker-extract-0.14-0 0.14.1-3 amd64 tracker extractor library ii libtracker-miner-0.14-0 0.14.1-3 amd64 tracker data miner library ii libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 0.14.1-3 amd64 metadata database, indexer and search tool - library ii tracker 0.14.1-3 amd64 metadata database, indexer and search tool ii tracker-extract 0.14.1-3 amd64 metadata database, indexer and search tool - metadata extractors ii tracker-gui 0.14.1-3 amd64 metadata database, indexer and search tool - GNOME frontends rc tracker-miner-fs 0.14.1-3 amd64 metadata database, indexer and search tool - filesystem indexer # seems to work update-rc.d tracker stop update-rc.d tracker disable # works as well apt-get remove tracker-miner-fs # throws dependency error apt-get --purge remove tracker # throws dependency error apt-get remove tracker # disable by Hidden=true seriously? echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop # whatever this does tracker-control -e # throws this error: apt-get remove tracker-gui Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libdbus-1-3 : Breaks: dbus (< 1.9.16-1~) but 1.6.8-1+deb7u1 is to be installed libglib2.0-0 : Recommends: xdg-user-dirs but it is not going to be installed Breaks: glib-networking (< 2.33.12) but 2.32.3-1 is to be installed libnm-gtk0 : Breaks: network-manager-gnome (< 0.9.10.0) but 0.9.4.1-5 is to be installed Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. # (this could very well be true, # i don't want to dist-upgrade break things) # you always try this if things fail X-D # actually uninstalled tracker-extract apt-get -f install # removed more stuff apt-get autoremove # reboot and... sync; sync; sync; shutdown -r now; # ... check if tracker is running ps uax|grep tracker # it does not run anymore in my case # also no excessive cpu usage is observable
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