desktop searching: HOWTO?

[anthony baldwin]

Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried google-desktop, beagle, tracker to perform search on my local 
> hard disk the way it does on my son's iMAC. But all in vain.
>
> None of these search engines was able to index my latex files, pdf 
> files and thunderbird mails. How can I tune one of them so that these 
> items get indexed?
>
> I use kubuntu GG, though I think this should not make a difference.
>
> Tx/Alain
I've found the native kde desktop search thingy is clunky and slow.
I had the pleasure of trying the app searchmonkey on a PCLOS system,
and it was quick and effective.
http://searchmonkey.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page
and
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=searchmonkey
I don't know if it is available to us in our repos.
The get deb page says it doesn't have a version for me, but, I'm using 
dapper.
Perhaps there are packages for newer ubuntus.
If it is, I would recommend it.

/tony

-- 
http://www.baldwinlinguas.com
Translation & Interpreting