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authorSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2019-05-23 22:22:23 +0200
committerSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2019-05-25 20:57:08 +0200
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Now you can run the commands below to build Tracker and install it in a
new, isolated prefix named `opt/tracker` inside your home folder.
+> NOTE: If you see 'dependency not found' errors from Meson, that means there
+> is a package missing on your computer that you need to install so you can
+> compile Tracker. On Ubuntu/Debian, you can run `apt build-dep tracker-miners`
+> and on Fedora `dnf build-dep tracker-miners` to install all the necessary
+> packages.
+
cd tracker-miners
meson ./build --prefix=$HOME/opt/tracker -Dtracker_core=subproject
cd build