Bug 228682

I too want beagle to index word documents.  I got it to work by building from
source.

1. Fetch and install source rpm:
     rpm -ivh beagle-0.2.16.2-5.fc7.src.rpm
2. Fetch and install wv and wv-devel binary rpms:
     yum install wv wv-devel
   (This step is key: wv-devel provides the needed "wv1" package.)
3. Try to build it:
     rpmbuild -v -bc /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/beagle.spec
3a. Step 3 will probably fail with a report of missing packages.  Install them.
 In my case I had to say
    yum install wv-devel   mono-devel mono-data mono-data-sqlite gtk-sharp2-gapi
gtk-sharp2-devel gnome-sharp-devel  mono-web libexif-devel gsf-sharp-devel 
evolution-sharp-devel perl-XML-Parser
3b. Repeat step 3.  It should now succeed.  Watch the configure step to make
sure that it says
    checking for WV1... yes
and later
            wv1?                      yes
4. Install it:
    cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/beagle-0.2.16.2/
    make install
  (Using "rpmbuild -bi" does not work: it fails when it finds the "unpackaged"
beagle-doc-extractor compiled in step 3.  There may be a command option to
ignore this but I don't know it.)
5. See beagle index your .doc files.

Comments: I don't know why wv1 is not enabled in the distro.  It seems to me
most of us who may not use Word ourselfs get emailed a lot of these .doc files
and need to keep track of them.  I do anyhow.

I did the above on a pristine system (Fedora 7 install, not upgrade from FC6)
which had never had beagle installed.  You may have to uninstall the beagle
binary rpm (rpm -e beagle) before doing step 4.

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