How would you install ripgrep-all?

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The program is not in the Fedora repositories, but can be compiled by running (I used Docker; about the @development-tools package; start by enabling the ‘free’ RPM repo):

$ dnf install @development-tools pandoc poppler-utils ffmpeg ripgrep cargo

then continue following the compiling instructions:

$ cargo install --locked ripgrep_all
$ rga --version

add to the binary to $PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:/root/.cargo/bin

Are there alternative methods? ripgrep-all seems highly desirable since the program can search through various office and compressed formats.

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This approach (build it locally) seems just fine, but if you would like to go to the next step, you could consider packaging it for the distro. There is a rust Special Interest Group, which hasn’t been very active lately but some folks may be interested in helping…

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