I am a new linux user, and I chose OpenSUSE because as far as I could tell, it is one of the few distros that still supports PPC processors (I’m running it in an iBook G4). I took me a while to figure out that my system was very slow do to Beagle. It took me even longer to find out how to uninstall- As usual, it is so easy but actually figuring out how to do it takes a while.
So, if i can help anybody save a couple of hours (or days) here’s what worked for me:
Open up a terminal (Computer–>Terminal)
Type sudo zypper remove beagle and enter your root pssw.
BEWARE: It seems that Zypper by default will just erase all programs that are somehow related to Beagle. DO NOT press Yes right away (when you try to do what I’m telling you’ll understand what I’m saying). READ. It will give you
3 options: y/n/p. If you press p, it will tell you three possible ways of dealing with the removal. You probably don’t want to remove a bunch of useful applications just to remove beagle).
Choose option number 2 (or whichever says something like "Do not remove all this applications, and instead deal with it by installing lidb or something similar).
5)Beagle is removed, and no other packages are removed.
I also begin to loathe the beagle - found it useful for those who need such stuff, yet I don’t like to see it being enabled by default. Lately I had to do a fresh install of oS11.0 on a fairly new machine of one of my support-customers - install went smooth, first boot showed no troubles, but after three to five minutes the desktop just freezed and there was no way out of it, neither Alt + Ctrl + F1, Alt + Ctrl + Backspace nor MagicSysRq or whatever comes to mind. I spend 1½ hours to find out that when deinstalling beagle, the freezes would be gone… those symptoms made me look at the totally wrong places for the bug. There must be something wrong when an application runs amok like this.
I have not used strigi yet, but actually I enjoy using ‘find’ and ‘locate’ pretty much anyway…
By the way, your link was censored, better use a modified URL like this: → click.
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a new linux user, and I chose OpenSUSE because as far as I could
> tell, it is one of the few distros that still supports PPC processors
> (I’m running it in an iBook G4). I took me a while to figure out that my
> system was very slow do to Beagle. It took me even longer to find out
> how to uninstall- As usual, it is so easy but actually figuring out how
> to do it takes a while.
>
> So, if i can help anybody save a couple of hours (or days) here’s what
> worked for me:
>
> 1) Open up a terminal (Computer–>Terminal)
>
> 2) Type sudo zypper remove beagle and enter your root pssw.
>
> 3) BEWARE: It seems that Zypper by default will just erase all programs
> that are somehow related to Beagle. DO NOT press Yes right away (when
> you try to do what I’m telling you’ll understand what I’m saying). READ.
> It will give you
> 3 options: y/n/p. If you press p, it will tell you three possible ways
> of dealing with the removal. You probably don’t want to remove a bunch
> of useful applications just to remove beagle).
>
> 4) Choose option number 2 (or whichever says something like "Do not
> remove all this applications, and instead deal with it by installing
> lidb or something similar).
>
> 5)Beagle is removed, and no other packages are removed.
>
> My laptop runs a little faster now. Beagle sucks.
>
> I found this info here:
> http://www.m4r3k.org/english/opensuse-linux/drop-that-****-d-beagle/
>
> I thought it could be useful for someone out there.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
I just reinstalled my system and told Beagle to not start at startup but it
still was the top user for a while. I then deinstalled it with YaST2 →
Siftware management. Only dependences shown were Beagle related and I told
it to deinstall them. Reboot and every thing looks good.
Just half an hour ago I unistalled beagle. In Yast, I searched for beagle and deleted everything with beagle in its name. There were two dependency issues. (1) nautilus, where I just told yast to ignore the issue and (2) Kerry which I selected to be deleted. Beagle was successfully removed and the only things I removed manually were the index files created by beagle.
@gropiuskalle, thanks for pointing out the censored link.
the suggestion of reinstalling opensuse didn’t work for me. for some strange reason, when i unchecked the beagle api in the installation wizard it crashed over, and over again. by the end i was very happy to have found the zypper command because i already have a couple of new applications compiled, my wireless running etc.
reinstalling suse works great, but if you don’t want to wipe out the entire disk just to uninstall one application, the zypper seems a good idea.
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> Oh, the addlock thing was a great thing to mention. I don’t want beagle
> to reappear with my next updates. Thanks a lot folks!
>
>
I agree it would be nice if they made beagle an option and start and install
with it disabled!!!
why can’t they just not have it in opensuse 11.1?
and if people really need it, they can install it later. it will actually go a decent way in speeding up the system, that these opensuse people are trying to achieve…
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> why can’t they just not have it in opensuse 11.1?
> and if people really need it, they can install it later. it will
> actually go a decent way in speeding up the system, that these opensuse
> people are trying to achieve…
>
> just musing…
>
>
Because it’s written in Mono which is a Novell supported project, so having it installed by default helps propagate Mono. It’s probably the most complete desktop search tool available in Linux though not necessarily the best not the most popular. Less intrusive options inc. Recoll, Tracker and Google’s.
Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 4.1beta (factory repo), Opera 9.x weekly
It’s not that I don’t like beagle. It’s running on two of my computers and works really well. I just removed it from one computer which frequently froze cause I thought that might be a beagle related problem.
theres just one more thing left: all the beagle extended file attributes. For example you can list them for a single file with getfattr -d <filename>
If you want to remove them too, go to FAQ - Beagle and look out for How to remove beagle and all its data ? there you’ll find a short script which should also clear the extended attributes.
Is there any reason why:
zypper rm beagle
is not sufficient to get rid of beagle?
(posted in the Weekly News as a tip)
I’m surprised such a utility is enabled by default. I shouldn’t be surprised since Windows still does it’s file indexing by default (one of the first things I disable when I install Windows).
yes this is enough to remove beagle from system and get rid of all resource consuming beagle processes. But beagle leaves some indexes (not only in home dir, there is also a static index somewhere in /var build from a daily beagle cronjob) and the extended file attributes back. If you also want to get rid oh these, you have to follow the description of the beagle faq. If you don’t care about these things (they should not reduce performance) then it is enough to remove beagle via zypper.
Thanks Monex, that was a nice clear reply. I do tend to like to clean up details like that. I’ll check the Beagle FAQ just so I’m a bit more familiar with it.
monoRhesus;1887639 Wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> 5)Beagle is removed, and no other packages are removed.
>
> My laptop runs a little faster now. Beagle sucks.
>
Thanks for this post. Glad to be rid of that boat anchor!