Thanks for that. Works as well with PCLoS Kde4 so I presume it would work with all Kde4 systems.

Wow thanks for this. I’ve been wanting to try to utilize desktop search for a while and I always got this error and gave up. Not it’s indexing like a champ.

Finally. Strigi is working again. I can’t start describing how much this has been bugging me.

Thank you. Decided to try using Desktop Search. As I remember the issues with Strigi when it was first released, I Googled on: nepomuk jaunty 9.04 and noticed your link. I read it, followed it, and Desktop Search works. Yes, I had to create the symlink to my Sun Java Runtime Environment file, and stop/restart Strigi. But it then successfully index my /home/user partition. Cool.

This was a clearly presented, easy to follow guide. Good job.

Hey, Ricky, thank you so much for this!

Before Koala, I used Ubuntu with KDE thrown on top of it, and I thought that the Strigi problem is some king of conflict between Gnome and KDE or something like that. But now I have pure KDE – Kubuntu, and to my surprise I got that annoying error message when I tried to start Strigi. I wonder why is this issue addressed somehow trought the packaging system… It’s not fun snooping around for hacks on how to run a program that’s included in the OS by default…

Anyway, thanks again. I really wanted to make this work because I use a Mac at work, so I want that fast file search

welc. Glad to know that the article helped you.
if i remember correctly the problem with strigi/nepomuk has been there since Jaunty. wonder why it wasn’t fixed in karmic as its so simple to fix

Additionally to making a softlink for libjvm I (kubuntu/karmic) had to:

- install package soprano-backend-sesame (was not installed by default)
- edit ~/.kde/share/config/nepomukserverrc
search line
Used Soprano Backend=redland
change to
Used Soprano Backend=sesame2

After restart of services nepomuk and strigi everything worked as expected.

Credits go to http://www.yeap.de/blog2.0/archives/210-KDE-4.3-E...

Thanks a mil.

This has been troubling me forever.

I had installed the back-ends and all but didn’t have the link and when I installed the link and read “Strigi currently indexing files…” I was overjoyed.

Thanks again.

Hi

thanks a lot, works for me. But I do have a question: it’s the first time I use strigi/nepomuk, and I expected a desktop search like Google’s Desktop Search or KBeagle (which I have in OpenSuse 10.1). That is, I would like to type a word and get all documents containing that word, but I can’t figure it out in Kubuntu Karmic. I have tried both the KRunner, and the command nepomuksearch: in Dolphin. Any help?

Thanks!

Daniel