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Quickly find the stuff you care about.

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for.
Using Beagle, you can easily find:

• documents
• emails & attachments
• web history
• IM/IRC conversations
• addressbook contacts
• calendar appointments
• notes
• source code
• images
• music/video files
• archives and their contents
• applications
• ... and much more

Visit the about page to learn more about what Beagle can do.

Getting Beagle

The most recent version of Beagle is 0.3.9, which was released on 26 January 2009. Read the release notes.

The most recent version of Libbeagle is 0.3.9 which was released on 26 January 2009. Read the release notes.
The most recent version of Beagle-xesam is 0.2, which was released on 28 December 2007. Read the release notes.
Download the source tarballs:

• beagle - Core Beagle daemon and GUIs
• libbeagle - C and Python APIs
• beagle-xesam - Xesam adaptor for Beagle

Visit Installing Beagle for source build instructions and links to binary packages (available for most popular distributions). Visit the Getting Started page for instructions on how to get Beagle up and running on your system. Don't forget to check Known Issues for any problems and fixes for the latest release.

Discussing Beagle

Discussions relating to Beagle take place in #dashboard on GIMPnet IRC. You can join the discussion right away by opening this link in a new window (sometimes there is nobody active so it is best to straight away ask you question and wait for sometime): http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.gimp.net&channel=%23dashboard
Discussions also take place on the dashboard-hackers mailing list.
Planet Beagle is an aggregator for the blogs of various Beagle hackers.
There's also a page where people can post their experience with Beagle.

Reporting Bugs

Before you report a bug, please check the Troubleshooting section and the bugs already reported to see if you are seeing a known problem. If not, please report the bug in the Beagle component of GNOME Bugzilla.