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

[Anish Mangal]

Thanks for the reply. Would it help if I shared the dataset version and the
IIAB rpm version.
On Jan 11, 2015 10:34 AM, "Braddock Gaskill" <braddock at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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