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

[Tim Moody]

The latest xsce installs with pip, as Braddock recommends, rather than with the rpm.  Probably the best thing to do is to look at the ansible playbook as a recipe.

you need to install with pip and change a symlink.


From: Anish Mangal 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 12:34 AM
To: xsce-devel 
Cc: server-devel ; iiab at sgvhak.org 
Subject: Re: [XSCE] IIAB with full text search.

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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