How to Install Beagle on Ubuntu

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Ensure that you have a fully operational

   This is the password that was entered when Ubuntu was first installed.
   
   Type this in. , A window will open similar to figure 1 (right).
   
   You need to add the text "user_xattr" to the fourth column of whichever partition your /home folder is on.
   
   If /home does not explicitly appear in the second column, then you need to add this property only to the row where the second column is a solitary /.
   
   This allows Beagle to index files more thoroughly.
   
   After having saved /etc/fstab, you need to remount the directories you've changed the settings in the /etc/fstab file.
   
   You can do this with the commands "mount
   -o remount /home"
   
   and "mount
   -o remount /". (where / and /home are the directories where you've changed the configuration).
   
   Another way to remount is to just reboot your system. ,, This will open a window which allows you to configure which folders you want to allow Beagle to search through.
   
   After you've confirmed this, click OK to close the window, open a terminal window and type beagle-info
   --status and ensure that the text output contains no errors. , To do so, you can open the program BEST (Bleeding Edge Search Tool) and type in the search term.
   
   You can open Best either through your menu system (Applications
   -> Accessories
   -> Beagle Search) or the Run dialog (simply type best). , In order to do this, open the Sessions window (System
   -> Preferences
   -> Sessions), go into the Startup programs tab, click the add button and type beagled in the Startup Command box.
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   Step 2: complete version of Ubuntu running GNOME (GDM).

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   Step 3: Enable the Universe repositories.

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   Step 4: Open the terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type:sudo apt-get install beagle.

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   Step 5: You will be prompted for the root (or primary user) password.

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   Step 6: After Beagle has installed

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   Step 7: whilst still in the terminal

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   Step 8: type sudo gedit /etc/fstab.

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   Step 9: Open the Run dialog (press Alt+F2) and type in beagled.

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    Step 10: Open another run dialog

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    Step 11: and type beagle-settings.

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    Step 12: You should now be able to search your computer!

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    Step 13: One final step: you will probably want Beagle to run every time you turn the computer on

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    Step 14: indexing your data continually.

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