As we probably all know Google supports Linux, what most Linux user not know is how to get Google stuff installed on their Linux Box.

I will explain how you can install Google Desktop Search on your Fedora and Ubuntu Linux computer.

Ubuntu

Select the public key by clicking on it with the right mouse button, and select “Save Link As....” https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub save it in your home directory. (normally this is the top of the list selection in “Save in folder” just above the default “Desktop” selection)

Now we can import the public security key:

sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub

Now you ready to include the Google repository:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now a editor opens and you can add the text below to the bottom of the text.

# Google software repository

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

After you closed the file and saved you can install google-desktop-linux from the list in your Synatic Package Manager (not forget to reload first)

Fedora

In Fedora the installation is best don by login as root user.

Select the public key by clicking on it with the right mouse button, and select “Save Link As....” https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub save it in your root directory.

rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub

Now you ready to add the Google repository:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

Now a editor opens and you can add the text below to the bottom of the text.

{google} (the { } have to be replaced with ] )

name=Google - $basearch

baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/$basearch

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

After you closed the file and saved you can install google-desktop-linux by

yum install google-desktop-linux

Some info I found regarding Google Desktop Search ...

Is Google Faster Than Beagle? In complete fairness, I have not bothered with Beagle since Ubuntu Edgy was hot off the presses. At the time, Beagle was slow, really slow. Because of the method of indexing apparently meant bringing a 1.5GHz system and 1GB of RAM to a crawl, I was forced to abandon it a long time ago. Besides, it was being run on a notebook computer that really did not have enough data stored on it that justified dealing with Beagle.

Then I installed Google Desktop on my desktop machine (AMD Athlon 64, 1GB RAM), and as I expected, it was packaged with ready to install DEB and RPM packages. As an added bonus, it also seemed that the app was based (partially, at least) on open source software.

Getting back to speed... it's odd, as I'm using this on a different system than Beagle was used to the last time. Regardless, Google Desktop has not slowed down anything whatsoever. At the very least, it is a far cry from the Google Desktop my mom once had running in Windows just a few years ago.