Doodle: Desktop Search for Debian
The new release of Debian brings with it Doodle, a desktop search for Debian. If you want to install doodle you need to install two packages: doodle and doodled.
Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer. Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups.
Desktop Search Engine (daemon).It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor plugins. It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.This is the daemon to keep the doodle database automagically up-to-date.
Install Doodle Desktop Search Engine in Debian - [Debian Admin]
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