[IIAB] [XSCE] IIAB with full text search.

[Braddock Gaskill]

Hi Anish,

I can tell you that we have not supported Fedora IIAB rpm packages for well
over a year - the recommended way to install is via Python pip package
manager.  I don't know what version of the IIAB software is in XSCE nor
what version of the dataset you have.  If the software is really from the
very old rpm package and the dataset (hard disk) is newer, that could be
why search is failing.

We try to ensure the latest software can always work with an old dataset,
but we do not assume that old versions of the software can work with a new
dataset.  This is because we assume old copies of the dataset will be
floating around for a long time with no easy upgrade path, but upgrading
the software is (should be) easy.

I have had very little time to devote to IIAB in the past seven months, and
no one has stepped in to take up the slack.  So the IIAB project is in a
state of neglect, although it is still being deployed and used successfully
and I am getting a steady stream of requests for the dataset.

-braddock

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Another question here from Bhagmalpur. So we installed the IIAB disk on
> the machine here and it works great except text search on wikipedia.
> Searching in Gutenberg somewhat works. I know some later XSCE release
> shipped with a fixed version of IIAB.
>
> We are using a derivative of XSCE 3.1 here (between that and v4). Question
> is could we just upgrade the IIAB rpm to the latest one and expect it to
> work. I also need to tinker with it to add TED videos and other media to
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> Anish
>
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