Re: [Tails-dev] Searching documents in an airgap Tails

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Hi,

> GNOME Files search[1] is based on Tracker[2] and supports a number of formats.
> Unless I'm mistaken it would require an upgrade to nautilus 3.26[3] to get full text
> search. Tails 3.3 has nautilus 3.22 and after upgrading to 3.26.2 (from Debian
> GNU/Linux sid with apt-get install nautilus tracker tracker-extract tracker-miner-fs)
> it worked with a simple manual test. Even if nautilus is not the best full text
> search it would be a great improvement :-)


> Do you think such an upgrade would be possible ?


It's great that we'll have this working once Tails is based on Debian
Buster; once we're there users who need such functionality can install
tracker and friends via Additional Software Packages.

Meanwhile, I'd rather not mix'n'match GNOME components from
testing/sid into Stretch-based Tails.