How do i install tracker-ui on ubuntu 18.04 so that i can run tracker-preferences and load music to gnome-music as explained in this guide here
when i try to install i get:
sudo apt install tracker-ui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package tracker-ui
Tracker has been re-introduced since 19.04. If you want to use it, upgrade or install Ubuntu 19.04.
Note that there is no package called tracker-ui in the Ubuntu repositories.
As pointed out by vanadium below, tracker itself is available in Ubuntu 18.04 but without tracker-gui, not tracker-ui, which has been discontinued.
Solved the issue using tracker
tracker daemon -t (terminate tracker daemons)
then
tracker daemon -s (start tracker daemons)
tracker status (check status)
No need to install tracker-ui or tracker-gui
Likely, the name of the package should read tracker-gui rather than tracker-ui. No package with the latter name was ever in the Ubuntu repositories.
tracker-gui used to contain graphical applications to interact with the tracker database. It contained a search tool and tracker-preferences. The package tracker-gui was included in the Ubuntu repositories up to version 17.10. It apparently is not anymore maintained, and has been dropped from subsequent Ubuntu versions.
tracker-gui as such is not needed. You typically query tracker through Activities, or through any of the applications that can use (Files in 18.04) or require (Gnome Photo's, Gnome Documents) Tracker. You can to some extent control what is being searched in Gnome Setting - Search. Various settings are not exposed to the user, but can be changed using dconf-editor.
This package is only available on Ubuntu trusty, xenial and zesty, it is not available on 18.04, you should try the recoll package instead but you gonna have to adapt your guide with it.
