1. Building

Instructions to build the most recent version of Tracker from the source code repository.

Check out the code from the repository with the following command:

 git clone git://git.gnome.org/tracker
 cd tracker

Compile and install

 ./autogen.sh
 make
 sudo make install

To verify that tracker is running you can use:

tracker-control

This should list all tracker processes running. You need to look out for tracker-store and tracker-miner-fs. Those are the most important ones. You can use tracker-control to start and stop processes as well as resetting your RDF store. For more information see man tracker-control.

After some time, the file system should be indexed (by tracker-miner-fs) and available for queries (if queries are failing see the debugging web page).

1.1. FAQ

1.1.1. Git error checking out the code

Do you have git version 1.5 or higher?

1.1.2. I get Vala build errors?

Are you using the latest version of Vala? You can see what version you have using:

 valac --version

You may need to download a newer version of Vala to build Tracker.