Topic: Anyone experience with swish-e

[elmarconi]

Need to find a decent intranet spider. Tried to install swish-e as per dag repository, but no success yet...

The source tgz install seems to need also a lot of manual tweaking.

[Stefano]

Tried to install swish-e as per dag repository, but no success yet...

what's the problem/error?

Ciao
Stefano

[elmarconi]

Googled swish-e rpm: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/swish-e/

Dag is OK so tried to install:

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yum install swish-e --enablerepo=dag

Swish-e does not seem to be in the repo.

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yum whatprovides swish --enablerepo=dag only shows wesnoth and themanaworld:

yum whatprovides swish --enablerepo=dag
==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
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Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
smeaddons                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
smeextras                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
smeos                     100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
smeupdates                100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from Dag - EL4
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Importing Additional filelist information for packages


wesnoth.i386                             1.2.4-1.el4.rf         dag
Matched from:
/usr/share/wesnoth/sounds/dagger-swish.wav
/usr/share/wesnoth/sounds/ghoul-swish.wav


themanaworld.i386                        0.0.18-1.2.el4.rf      dag
Matched from:
/usr/share/tmw/data/sfx/fist-swish.ogg
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No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
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I guess it is not there. But the big Q is: is swish-e worth the effort or has any-one another suggestion?

[Stefano]

hi

yes, swish "is" in Dag's repo, but no rpms are available.. there's only a spec file to be used with rpmbuild and the source package, but I see it's very old..

But the big Q is: is swish-e worth the effort or has any-one another suggestion?

sorry, I can't help you here

ciao
Stefano

[cactus]

yes, swish "is" in Dag's repo, but no rpms are available.. there's only a spec file to be used with rpmbuild and the source package, but I see it's very old..

I suggest contacting Dag Wieers then as he is the maintainer of that repo, his site has a way of contacting him IIRC.

[elmarconi]

Actually I've got it installed, after I found these:
http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/
Not the latest, but for Proof of Concept it should do.
Needed a couple of dependancies which could be solved with the dag repositories.
Next thing I need is configure, but haven't had time yet. Need to read up:
http://swish-e.org/docs/swish-config.html
http://www.adamsdesk.com/be/archives/2008/05/30/how-to-installing-swish-e-v245/

If I get it running, I will write a contrib page. Don't hold your breath though...

[pwalter]

If I get it running, I will write a contrib page. Don't hold your breath though...

If you get it running, at least share the experience here. I am sure that others are interested - I know I am!
Peter

[elmarconi]

If you get it running, at least share the experience here. I am sure that others are interested - I know I am!
Peter

Q & Dirty quide: Will write contrib.

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http://wiki.contribs.org/Swish-e

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Wget all rpm's from http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/

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wget http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/swish-e-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm
wget http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/swish-e-debuginfo-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm
wget http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/swish-e-devel-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm
wget http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/swish-e-perl-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm
wget http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/swish-e-perl-api-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm
Tried:

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yum localinstall swish-e-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm swish-e-d* swish-e-p* 
Load of dependencies missing, installed them one at a time.
Search the forum how to enable dag's repo.

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yum install perl-HTML-Template perl-HTML-FillInForm perl-Template-Toolkit --enablerepo=dag

Again:

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yum localinstall swish-e-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm swish-e-d* swish-e-p* 
Installed swish-e. I now think that installing the above with:

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yum localinstall swish-e-2.4.5-4.i386.rpm swish-e-d* swish-e-p*  --enablerepo=dag would work also.

swish-e -h should work now.

For filtering .doc .xls and .pdf I installed:

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yum install perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel --enablerepo=dag
yum install perl-MIME-Types --enablerepo=dag
yum install xpdf

Configuration is ongoing. Update will follow.

[mudra]

Thank you for all your work on SWISH-E. Do you know how I can make it index OpenOffice files.

TIA,

Mudra

[CharlieBrady]

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Wget all rpm's from http://rpmbuild.joshr.com/swish-e-release/2.4.5-4/centos-4-i386/

You don't need the -devel and -debuginfo packages.

[piran]

Q & Dirty quide: Will write contrib.

Good work;~) Do you have a wiki example for the 'spidering' of an ibay web site (internet access)?

[cactus]

Thank you for all your work on SWISH-E. Do you know how I can make it index OpenOffice files.

Although old and in German, perhaps this might help: http://www.linux-magazin.de/heft_abo/ausgaben/2004/04/finden_im_sauseschritt/(offset)/2

or this thread: http://swish-e.org/archive/2003-05/5567.html

[cactus]

Thank you for all your work on SWISH-E. Do you know how I can make it index OpenOffice files.

Or from a more recent thread (http://swish-e.org/archive/2008-03/12064.html) this script could give you a pointer: http://www.internux.ch/Sharing/swish-e/fserv_spider.txt

[Jáder]

Hi ElMarconi

Are you still using swish-e ??

I'd like to start using it but found some problems/doubts (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,46675.0.html)
and stopped for a while.

Could we work toghether ?


Regards

Jáder

[elmarconi]

I'm sorry to say that Swish-e hasn't been used by me anymore lately.
Lazy as I am I tend to fall back to the good old "locate"...