google desktop out for linux?

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Thu Jul 5 01:53:10 UTC 2007


Wade Smart wrote:
> Albert Charron wrote:
>   
>> Rick wrote:
>>     
>>> has anyone try this? good or bad,
>>> better than what we have now ? (beagle)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks -
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Can't say if it's better or worst than beagle because I didn't know 
>> about beagle, but I installed Google Desktop (under Feisty) and it's 
>> currently indexing my files and e-mail.  It has almost the same 
>> features as Google Desktop for Windows.
>>
>> Seems to work fine.  By default, It indexes man files, files under you 
>> home directory and your e-mails (when your mail client is openned).
>>
>> I installed by using the repository, as explained on Google Desktop 
>> for Linux web page.
>>
>>     
> 07042007 2020 GMT-6 DST
>
> How do you download this key?
> http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/aboutkey.html
> I have tried clicking and it brings up text.
> I tried, save as, but it saves as a .pub
> So I tried copying the text to a file and saving with the Key ID but
> none of that worked.
>
> wade
>
>   
    07042007 2049 GMT-6 DST

I found the page for  using apt-get but still having problems.

When I try to run the code Google says to use I get this error:
wadesmart at wadesmart:~$ sudo wget -q -O - 
http://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
Password:
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-': general error
gpg: import from `-' failed: general error

wade




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