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My goal was to search all document files, (text, Open Office, doc, rtf, pdf, etc.) for a specific string.
I hoped to have a utility that had the files indexed, and could deal with a wide variety of file types.

I could use a combination of find and grep. These do not use an index, and only work with files with text data.

Mageia has Catfish. It has an index via the "locate" utility. But it seems to only work with files with text data.

Beagle, and Baloo are not on Mageia. What alternatives would you reccommend? :?:

Catfish is just a front end for locate, slocate, or beagle. Beagle has not been developed since 2009.

Baloo will be available in Mageia 5 because it replaces nepomuk starting in KDE 4.13. I suggest you wait for Mageia 5.

Regarding baloo/nepomuk - that is only the semantic desktop framework where the data is stored. The indexer is called strigi and comes with KDE by default.
No need to wait for mga5 for that. See maybe https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Search_Desktop for some more details.

There's at least additionally tracker https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker which comes with GNOME
and also recoll which is in our repos http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Also docfetcher which is a portable java application: http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

For more search at http://alternativeto.net/?platform=linux (search for the program you need an alternative for)

I installed the package recoll-full, ran the command recoll (in a terminal window), asked it to index all of the files in my home folder. It indexed 17 GB of files, about 175K files, in about 36 minutes. Then it quickly gave me the search results for the specific string that started my first post in this topic.

recoll-full is good.

Please hankivy, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead.

Anyone know where the baloo configuration is hidden in mageia?

Dont spend too much time however; recoll works well for me, but i thought i should give baloo a chance - it *should* work...

Spoiler:

According to what i found:
https://community.kde.org/Baloo/Configuration

One can configure settings for Baloo in ~/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc

Wow thanks Isadora, it is where you say: ~/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc

I have read that page you refer to but there it say ~/.kde4/share/apps/config/baloofilerc

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