Installing 'The Silver Searcher' on Ubuntu
The Silver Searcher is a code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
Install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pgolm/the-silver-searcher
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install the-silver-searcherWritten by Peter Golm
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Sadly I get this:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pgolm/the-silver-searcher/ubuntu/dists/saucy/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
over 1 year ago
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@tar11
If you're running Ubuntu older than 13.10 you have to build it manually.
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#building-from-source
over 1 year ago
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https://github.com/ggreer/thesilversearcher#linux
sudo apt-get install silversearcher-ag
over 1 year ago
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