Kat External Program Dependencies
Hi, I found that Kat was indexing only a small fraction of my documents in 10.0 (I'm running 0.6.3-3 retrieved from the "Supplementary KDE 3.4 update" for SuSE 10.0 area of mirrors.kernel.org). So I eradicated my old settings and re-ran Kat, prompting it to go through it's initial setup wizard. All is well (the kernel included with 10.0 has the notification code -- good) but when I get to the screen the shows the availability of external programs used to access content of individual document files of various types, I find many are missing. Extensive searching within YaST Software Management allowed me to find only a few, and not ones that are important to me (PowerPoint and Excel, e.g.). What I need most and cannot find is "pstotext" (from package "pstotext"). The RTF and TeX extractors would be nice, too. Even the MS-Word package ("antiword") would be useful, since like it or not, I have to deal with quite a few Word documents. I'm wondering if some of the program names have changed? E.g., pstotext. I have ps2ascii, if that's the same thing. If so, how do I tell Kat to use the program I have? Anyway, I've placed a screen capture of the window showing the external program status here: http://64.142.14.4/~rschulz/Kat-Setup-ExtProgs.png. If anyone can tell me how to resolve some of these dependencies, I'd appreciate it. Or, given what I just learned, perhaps I should just wait (should just have waited) for my boxed set to arrive. Thanks. Randall Schulz
Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 17:47 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Hi,
I found that Kat was indexing only a small fraction of my documents in 10.0 (I'm running 0.6.3-3 retrieved from the "Supplementary KDE 3.4 update" for SuSE 10.0 area of mirrors.kernel.org).
So I eradicated my old settings and re-ran Kat, prompting it to go through it's initial setup wizard. All is well (the kernel included with 10.0 has the notification code -- good) but when I get to the screen the shows the availability of external programs used to access content of individual document files of various types, I find many are missing.
well, depends if you really have/use these kinds of files. Which file formats do you miss during indexing ? But Kat isn't really usable yet in general, there quite a number of issues where it does miss some good code or idea. However, they joined with kio-clucene developers, so lets hope it does improves in the future. bye adrian
Adrian, On Monday 10 October 2005 11:05, Adrian Schröter wrote:
Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 17:47 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Hi,
I found that Kat was indexing only a small fraction of my documents in 10.0 (I'm running 0.6.3-3 retrieved from the "Supplementary KDE 3.4 update" for SuSE 10.0 area of mirrors.kernel.org).
So I eradicated my old settings and re-ran Kat, prompting it to go through it's initial setup wizard. All is well (the kernel included with 10.0 has the notification code -- good) but when I get to the screen the shows the availability of external programs used to access content of individual document files of various types, I find many are missing.
well, depends if you really have/use these kinds of files. Which file formats do you miss during indexing ?
I made it quite clear that I do need them, didn't I? PostScript, MS Word and TeX. I use them all and in particular I have a very large collection of PostScript papers.
But Kat isn't really usable yet in general, there quite a number of issues where it does miss some good code or idea. However, they joined with kio-clucene developers, so lets hope it does improves in the future.
I also made it clear that this was a retreat from the level of indexing I had under SuSE 9.3.
bye adrian
Randall Schulz
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