Beagle stopped working after update - solved, sort of

[NoOp]

On 02/16/2011 05:59 PM, rikona wrote:
> Hello NoOp,
> 
> Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 11:48:57 AM, NoOp wrote:
> 
> N> I recommend trying recoll instead:
> N> http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/recoll
> N> http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
> 
> Thanks for reminding me of that. I installed the Synaptic version, let
> it index, and it seems to be working well so far.
> 
> I used an earlier version some time ago, and the current version is
> **MUCH** better than the quite old one I had tried before. I had
> worked with the developer to put in some advanced search capabilities,
> and those are MUCH better integrated and 'smoother' to use than in the
> old version. My initial impression is that it is now equal to Beagle
> in usability, and superior for complex searches. At this point, it is
> about equal to my favorite DTsearch.

You might want to try the ppa version. With that version you can click
to table-based mode. See:
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pics/result-table.html
Read the release notes first:
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/release-1.15.0.html

$ apt-cache policy recoll
recoll:
  Installed: 1.15.2-0~ppa1~maverick1
  Candidate: 1.15.2-0~ppa1~maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1.15.2-0~ppa1~maverick1 0
        500
http://ppa.launchpad.net/recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on/ubuntu/
maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.13.04-3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386
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