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Building
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Building
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Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005), FreeBSD and
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Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005), FreeBSD and
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Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much welcome
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Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much welcome
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comments and patches.
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patches.
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Normal procedure:
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Normal procedure:
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* cd recoll-xxx
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* cd recoll-xxx
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* configure
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* configure
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* make
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* make
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* (practise your usual hardship-repelling invocations).
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* (practise your usual hardship-repelling invocations).
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There is no real autoconfiguration. The configure script will just link
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There little autoconfiguration. The configure script will mainly link one
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one of the system-specific files in the mk directory to mk/sysconf. If
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of the system-specific files in the mk directory to mk/sysconf. If your
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your system is known yet, it will tell you as much, and you may want to
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system is not known yet, it will tell you as much, and you may want to
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manually copy and modify one of the existing files (the new file name
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manually copy and modify one of the existing files (the new file name
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should be the output of uname -s).
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should be the output of uname -s).
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You may also need to adjust the recoll.pro file inside the qtgui directory
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to fix the "-L/usr/local/lib -lxapian -liconv" piece, depending on where
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your libs are installed. Then run 'qmake recoll.pro' in there.
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Using binary packages
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Using binary packages
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The binary versions are just compressed tar files of a build tree, where
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The binary versions are just compressed tar files of a build tree, where
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only the useful parts were kept (executables and sample configuration).
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only the useful parts were kept (executables and sample configuration).
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Commands and common files
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Commands and common files
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Either type make install or execute recollinstall targetdir, in the root
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Either type make install or execute recollinstall targetdir, in the root
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of the source tree. This will copy the commands to $targetdir/bin and the
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of the source tree. This will copy the commands to $targetdir/bin and the
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sample configuration files to $targetdir/share/examples/recoll
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sample configuration files, scripts and other shared data to
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$targetdir/share/recoll
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Personal configuration
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Personal configuration
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Either type make installme in the root of the source tree, or execute
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The personal configuration files and the database are kept in the .recoll
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recollinstall. This will copy the configuration files to the .recoll
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directory in your home. If this directory does not exist when recoll or
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directory in your home.
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recollindex are started, the directory will be created and the sample
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configuration files will be copied. recoll will give you a chance to edit
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the configuration file before starting indexation. recollindex will
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proceed immediately.
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Configuration
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Configuration
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Recoll uses text configuration files. You will have to edit them by hand
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Recoll uses text configuration files. You will have to edit them by hand
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for now (all hope is not lost that there will be dialogs to build them
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for now (there is still some hope for a GUI configuration tool in the
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from the GUI in the future).
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future).
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The main configuration file is named ~/.recoll/recoll.conf.
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The main configuration file is named ~/.recoll/recoll.conf.
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A commented sample was copied to ~/.recoll by the installation. By
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The default configuration will index your home directory. If this is not
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default, it will index your home directory.
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appropriate, use recoll to copy the sample configuration, click Cancel,
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and edit the configuration file before restarting the command. This will
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start the initial indexation, which may take some time.
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Then start recollindex, and wait for indexing to complete (this may take
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You are then ready to try a query, see the user manual for more detail.
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some time). When it's done, you can start recoll and try a search. See the
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user manual for a little more details
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Depending on what is installed on your system, you may also want to adjust
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Depending on what is installed on your system, you may also want to adjust
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the external viewers defined in ~/.recoll/mimeconf (ie: html is either
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the external viewers defined in ~/.recoll/mimeconf (ie: html is either
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previewed internally or displayed using firefox, but you may prefer
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previewed internally or displayed using firefox, but you may prefer
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mozilla...). Look for the [view] section.
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mozilla...). Look for the [view] section.
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