Mine says folder, wife's says inode-directory. Both 18.04. I'm stumped.

[Iangh]

I have managed to successfully install docfetcher on 18.04 with the daemon autostarting, see https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...ubuntu.419743/.

Having figured out how to do it on mine I (confidently) proceeded to my wife's PC. Big problem! When right-clcking, Properties, my folders say folder, hers say inode/directory. My file says executable, hers says application/x-executable. I can double-click and the daemon starts. On hers, nothing happens. On my wife's I even tried running the daemon using the console by navigating to the directory and ./docfetcher-daemon-linux, the result is "bash: docfetcher-daemon-linux: No such file or directory". Yet if I "dir" it correctly lists all the files, including docfetcher-daemon-linux.

I don't understand what's happened as to why the difference in how folders and files are labelled strangely on the wife's PC , as I have always been careful to set-up both PCs the same to minimise PC support. I have searched the internet and am none the wiser. I'm hoping this is something obvious to an expert who lives in Linux world.

[jlittle]

One thing to check is how the file system is mounted. The default mount option for "extra" drives, such as removable ones, is "noexec", which might have the effects you describe.

[woodsmoke]

Tangh

Thanks to this thread I have installed DocFetcher. Thank you, I will be trying it out over the next few days.

To the gentle readers, it is a snap package here is the download page for Kubuntu

https://snapcraft.io/install/docfetcher/kubuntu#install

Here is the general page for other distros.

https://snapcraft.io/docfetcher

woodsmoke

[Iangh]

Couldn't fix it so installed Recoll from Discover. You need some helpers to make it work, https://askubuntu.com/questions/1871...o-index-images. It tells you which ones you need after to run the first index on the folders you have chosen. I went with:

$ sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl antiword python-mutagen python-rarfile untex python-libxslt1 python-libxmls.

I've set it to index real-time.

To get access to the snippets in pdfs you need evince, find the snap package (300meg download) in Discover. In Recoll's GUI Config, Choose editor Apps, you will see three entries starting with evince, change the line to:

/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=evince --file-forwarding org.gnome.Evince @@u %U @@ --page-index=%p --find=%s %f

I assume it will install in the same place. Check by right-clicking on Document Viewer in the menu list, edit application, application tab, and see what the command line says for opening evince (called document viewer in the menu).

This points Recoll to the Evince Snap when you click the snippet. You don't have to install evince and can just set the entries to Desktop Package. With no Evince clicking a snippet will just open the pdf on the first page using Okular.

Because Evince will only be used for viewing pdfs from Recoll I right-clicked in menu to hide it.