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A more complete version of this document can be found at
http://www.recoll.org
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Installing Recoll
There are currently no binary packages, so you will need to build Recoll
from source before installing it.
Prerequisites
At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core
package (I am currently using xapian version 0.8.5), and the qt runtime
and development packages (I am currently using qt 3.3.3).
You will most probably be able to find a binary package for qt for your
system. You may have to compile Xapian, but this is not difficult.
You also need libiconv. I am currently using version 1.9. The iconv
interface is part of libc on Linux systems, you shouldn't need to do
anything there.
External file types: recoll uses external applications to index some file
types. You need to install them for the file types that you wish to have
indexed:
* MS Word documents: antiword.
* PDF files: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
* Postscript files: pstotext.
Building
Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005), FreeBSD and
Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much welcome
comments and patches.
Normal procedure:
* cd recoll-xxx
* configure
* make
* (practise your usual hardship-repelling invocations).
There is no real autoconfiguration. The configure script will just link
one of the system-specific files in the mk directory to mk/sysconf. If
your system is known yet, it will tell you as much, and you may want to
manually copy and modify one of the existing files (the new file name
should be the output of uname -s).
You may also need to adjust the recoll.pro file inside the qtgui directory
to fix the "-L/usr/local/lib -lxapian -liconv" piece, depending on where
your libs are installed. Then run 'qmake recoll.pro' in there.
Installation
Execute installrecoll targetdir, in the root of the source tree. This
will:
* Copy qtgui/recoll and index/recollindex to targetdir/bin (but you
could also execute them from their build directories).
* Check if ~/.recoll exists, and if it does not:
* Copy all files from sampleconf/* to ~/.recoll
* Copy all files from filters/* to ~/.recoll.
Configuration
Recoll uses text configuration files. You will have to edit them by hand
for now (all hope is not lost that there will be dialogs to build them
from the GUI in the future).
The main configuration file is named ~/.recoll/recoll.conf.
There is a commented sample in the sampleconf subdirectory, it was copied
to ~/.recoll at the previous step, take a look and possibly edit it. By
default, it will index your home directory.
Then start recollindex, and wait for indexing to complete (this may take
some time). When it's done, you can start recoll and try a search
Depending on what is installed on your system, you may also want to adjust
the external viewers defined in ~/.recoll/mimeconf (ie: html is either
previewed internally or displayed using firefox, but you may prefer
mozilla...). Look for the [view] section.
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