---
title: 'Removing the tracker-miner-fs package and service'
url: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/udalenie-paketa-i-sluzhby-tracker-miner-fs'
markdown: 'https://ra1ahq.blog/en/udalenie-paketa-i-sluzhby-tracker-miner-fs.md'
lang: en
date: '2024-03-22'
description: 'After installing the package update, I discovered the tracker-miner-fs service, which was unknown to me. What k'
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---
# Removing the tracker-miner-fs package and service
22
March
2024
0:15
### Removing the tracker-miner-fs package and service
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22 March 2024 0:15
After installing the package update, I discovered the tracker-miner-fs service, which was unknown to me.
### What kind of service is this - tracker-miner
[They write on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/atckw3/what_exactly_is_trackerminerfs_as_shown_under/) that this service is used to index file metadata, that it is a well-known service for Gnome Nautilus.
### Symptoms
`The tracker-miner-fs package (2.3.3-2ubuntu0.20.04.2) is being configured...
A new version of the configuration file /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop is installed...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/tracker-miner-fs.service → /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs.service.`
As you can see, a new service was added to autostart /etc/xdg/autostart/ during the update.
```
cat /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
```
```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Tracker File System Miner
Comment=Crawls and processes files on the file system
Icon=
Exec=/usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd=true
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-KDE-UniqueApplet=true
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE;X-IVI;Unity;
X-systemd-skip=true
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=tracker
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=Miners
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.3.3
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=tracker-miners
```
A funny feature of the tracker-miner-fs service is that measures have been taken to make it invisible (NoDisplay=true), inaccessible to systemd (X-systemd-skip=true) and calls itself a file system tracker: "X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=tracker".
This tracker and file system miner is visible only from the following shells: GNOME; KDE; XFCE; X-IVI; Unity.
I have a different desktop on runtu LITE - LXDE, so the tracker is completely hidden.
### What is tracker-miner-fs for?
According to the information, tracker-miner-fs is used to index files on disk and their metadata for the Nautilus file manager. That is, it is the equivalent of the "Windows Search" service, but for Linux.
### Dependencies
When you try to delete `tracker-miner-fs*`, dependencies pop up
*gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons*
*nautilus*
If you don't use the Nautilus file manager, you can safely remove the package.
### Removing the tracker-miner-fs package
```
sudo apt purge tracker-miner-fs
```
Result:
`Do you want to continue? [Y/n]`
(Reading the database...there are currently 431383 files and directories installed.)
Uninstalling gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (20.04.0-3~ubuntu20.04.6) ...
Nautilus (1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.2) is being removed...
Tracker-miner-fs (2.3.3-2ubuntu0.20.04.2) is being removed...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.6) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 (2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.6) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) are processed...
(Reading the database...there are currently 431341 files and directories installed.)
The configuration files of the tracker-miner-fs package (2.3.3-2ubuntu0.20.04.2) are being cleaned...
The configuration files of the nautilus package are cleaned (1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.2) ...
The unnecessary tracker-miner-fs component has been successfully removed from the operating system.
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