File content indexer for Ubuntu?

[Peter Flynn]

On 08/01/2022 08:58, Owen Thomas wrote:
> Hello Ubuntu users.
> 
> I want to index the contents of files in a directory tree. I found
> recoll
> <https://www.fossmint.com/recoll-file-text-search-tool-for-linux/> - a
> utility that appears to do the job and also has a GUI to make the novice
> experience less threatening - but the installation instructions seem
> perhaps too bespoke for something I would have thought was a feature
> that was popular enough to be available as a package from the Ubuntu
> Software centre. Is there anything else?

I use Remembrance Agent. It's old, but its cooperation with Emacs (my
primary writing tool) is excellent.

Peter