Strigi download
You can can download Strigi source code from the sourceforge site.
Alternatively, you can get latest development version of Strigi from KDE svn. Just type the following command:
Beware: this is a development version, it can present some bugs.
After having downloaded the source code, follow the installation instructions
Installation
There are two ways for installing Strigi:
- build from source
- from binary distribution packages
Build from source
First of all you've to obtain Strigi's source code following one of the methods shown above. Then you'll need to install one of the four possible backends. Currently, the CLucene backend is the best choice since it is the fastest and more supported one. You need at least version 0.9.15, which is available here. In addition you need libmagic on your system.
Alternatively, you can install CLucene and libmagic using the development packages of your distro (for example under debian system you'll have to install libclucene-dev and libmagic-dev.
After that extract Strigi tarball and start the cmake dance. You can find more detailed informations into the README file distributed with Strigi sources.
Install from binary distribution packages
This is the fastest and easiest way for obtaining Strigi.
Actually Strigi packages are provided by some Gnu/Linux distributions like:
- debian based distribution (debian, ubuntu, kubuntu, ...)
- gentoo linux
Just use your package manager (apt-get, emerge, synaptic,...) and perform Strigi installation from it.
