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+I enabled this plugin, but I keep getting the following error message
+every time I refresh or rebuild the wiki:
+
+> updating hyperestraier search index
+> estcmd: ERROR: /home/wiki/wiki/.ikiwiki/hyperestraier: database problem
+> estcmd gather -cm -bc -cl -sd -cl /home/wiki/wiki/.ikiwiki/hyperestraier - exited nonzero: 256
+> done
+
+Nevertheless, searching for pages works as expected, as far as I can tell.
+
+--[[tschwinge]]