Beagle

Mono 1.1.X installing

I had troubles to install Mono 1.1.7 from the ubuntu backports: the package mono-assemblies-base-1.1.7 was not available using Synaptic (or apt). I had to download the ".deb" files:

• mono_1.1.7-0ubuntu4~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
• mono-common_1.1.7-0ubuntu4~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
• mono-jit_1.1.7-0ubuntu4~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
• mono-assemblies-base_1.1.7-0ubuntu4~5.04ubp1_all.deb

from a backport mirror and then to install these packages manually (using dpkg -i).

The problem is reported in this thread from the backport ubuntu forum.

Installing Beagle

No problem. The current package version in the Ubuntu backports is : 0.0.11.1-0ubuntu1~5.04ubp1

Customizing beagle

Search through all the documents you printed

Ever wanted to be able to quickly search through all the pdf documents/papers you have printed from the Interet? Here's how: modify your printer command/driver to save all printed documents on the disk, and then let Beagle index them. Simple but useful, especially if you print a lot. The details are here.

Ugly hack to make beagle index my MBOX Xemacs/VM files

With the Xemacs/VM mail reader, all folders are in MBOX format. To make these files be recognized as mail folder by Beagle, I just create an account on Evolution and create symbolic links in ~/.evolution/mail/local of my VM folders:

# ln -s ~/VM-MAIL-FOLDERS/* ~/.evolution/mail/local

Then, open evolution and click the new folders that appear in the local folder list (on click, evolution will create metafiles for each folder: *.cmeta, *.ev-summary, *.index, ...).

Now, Beagle can index the files as mail folders and when I click on a best result, evolution is started to open the mail.

Bad news: when a new mail arrives into one of my Xemacs/VM folders, beagle won't index it unless you click on this folder in evolution (to update the metafiles)...

Minor problems

When best wanted to access to the Evolution AddressBook, I had this error message:

Could not open Evolution addressbook:
System.DllNotFoundException: libebook-1.2.so.0
in (wrapper managed-to-native) Evolution.Book:e_book_new_system_addressbook (intptr&)
in <0x00016> Evolution.Book:NewSystemAddressbook ()
in <0x00078> Beagle.Tile.TileMailMessage:GetImNames (System.String who)

To correct this, I simply create a symbolic link libebook-1.2.so.0 with as target libebook-1.2.so.3:

# sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.3 /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.0

Please check Bug #31482.

External useful links

• Beagle on Fedora Core 4
• Beagle on Ubuntu (in French)
• Beagle on SUSE 10.0

Mono 1.1.9.2 (from CVS) Beagle (from CVS) as of 241005 Beagle Indexer (FireFox plugin) 0.2

Compiled with

Target OS: linux

       Extended Attributes:    libc
       inotify?                yes

       Prefix:                 /usr/local
       GNOME Prefix:           /opt/gnome
       KDE Prefix:             /opt/kde3

       Evolution-Sharp?        no (missing dependencies)
       gsf-sharp?              no
       Epiphany Extension?     auto
       Mozilla Extension?      yes
       wv1?                    yes
       galago-sharp?           no
       libchm?                 yes

       Local SqliteClient?     yes
       Sqlite version:         2.x

       Enable WebServices      yes
       Enable libbeagle        yes

Working reasonably well, though sometimes beagled seems to disappear and needs a restart (once every 2-3 hours).

Indexes the following x Files - PDF's, OO documents x IM - Gaim 1.5.0 x Web Pages - Mozilla FireFox 1.0.6

Adam