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# looqs - FTS for the Linux desktop with previews for search results
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looqs creates a full text search index for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your
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search terms have been found, as shown in the screenshots below.
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## Screenshots
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The screenshots in this section may occasionally be slightly outdated, but they are usually recent enough to get an overall impression of the current state.
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### List
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### Preview
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## Current status
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Last version: 2022-0X-XX, v0.1
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Please see [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) for a human readable list of changes.
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## Goals and principles
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* **Find & Preview**. Instead of merely telling you where your search phrase has been found, it should also render the corresponding portion/pages of the documents and highlight the searched words.
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* **No daemons**. As some other desktop search projects are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons where possible.
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* **Easy setup**. Similiarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, this solution tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite.
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* **GUI & CLI**. Provide CLI interfaces and GUI interfaces
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* **Sandboxing**. As reading and rendering lots of formats naturally opens the door for security bugs, those tasks are offloaded to small, sandboxed sub-processes to mitigate the effect of exploited vulnerabilities.
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## Supported platforms
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Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on supporting anything else and the sandboxing architecture does not make it likely. I suppose a version without sandboxing might be conceivable for other platforms, but I have no plans or resources to actively target anything but Linux at this point.
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### Licence
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GPLv3.
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### Contributing
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Fow now, github issues and pull-requests are preferred, but you can also just email
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your patches or issues to : looqs at quitesimple.org
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## Build
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### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04
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```
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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sudo apt install build-essential qtbase5-dev libpoppler-qt5-dev libuchardet-dev libquazip5-dev
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qmake
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make
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```
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## Documentation
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Please see [Usage.md](USAGE.md) for the user manual.
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## Packages
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Coming soon™
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