HOW TO INSTALL CATFISH FILE SEARCH APP (NON-SNAP PKG) IN UBUNTU 24.04
(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) RANT (or skip and go straight to HOW TO...below) I love Catfish, the search engine, and I use it extensively, especially when I need to search an attached USB drive (MyPassport) for content text, which cannot be done in Files (Nautilus) on an Ubuntu machine (despite the promises of the OS 24.04 release). When 24.04 was released, I decided to forego my umpteenth Upgrade and do the “full monty” fresh install. After the install, I was totally dismayed and very irritated to discover that virtually all the programs I run were now available only as snaps, not only in the initial install, but post-install in the Sof...