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<h2><a name="general">General information</a></h2>
<p>The current version is 1.20.6. <a href="release-1.20.html">Release
notes</a>.</p>
<p>Recoll <a href="usermanual/RCL.INSTALL.html">Installation / building
manual</a>.</p>
<p>The indexing filters used for some document types may need external
packages not installed on your system by default, and not installed
automatically with Recoll: <a href="features.html#doctypes">take a
look at the list</a> and decide what you need to install.</p>
<p>The Recoll term explorer tool in phonetic mode (marginally useful and
optional) uses the <b>aspell</b> package, version 0.60 (utf-8 support) or
newer.</p>
<p>If you find problems with this page, the package or its installation,
<em>please</em> <a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">report them</a>.</p>
<h4>What do the release numbers mean?</h4>
<p>The Recoll releases are numbered X.Y.Z. The X would only change for really
major modifications like a big change in the index format, and possibly won't
ever reach 2.</p>
<p>Y is for functional modifications. These may bring bugs, so if you don't
need the new features, you may want to wait a little, and especially skip the
first release (X.Y.0), at least for a few weeks.</p>
<p>Z changes for <a href="BUGS.html">bug fixes</a> only, and moving from X.Y.Z
to X.Y.Z+u should in general involve little risk of regression. But,
<em>any</em> change can bring problems, if you are not affected by the
corrected bugs (check the <a href="release-1.20.html">release file</a>), there
is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.</p>
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<div id="bugs">
<h2><a name="bugs">Known bugs</a></h2>
<p>There is a <a href="BUGS.html">history of known bugs</a>, sorted
by fix release. Also see
the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues">
issue tracker on Bitbucket</a>.
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<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<h3>Current release distribution: 1.20.6:</h3>
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<p><a href="recoll-1.20.6.tar.gz">recoll-1.20.6.tar.gz</a>.</p>
<h3>Release 1.21.1</h3>
<p>Not the right choice if you are after complete stability:
<a href="recoll-1.21.1.tar.gz">recoll-1.21.1.tar.gz</a>. See what's
new in the <a href="release-1.21.html">release notes</a>.</p>
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<h3>Snapshot</h3>
<p>I sometimes release a source tarfile when I consider that the
current development version is stable enough. The current
snapshot contains commits up to 2240 (see
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changesets">the
changelog</a>, and a synthetic abstract in the
current <a href="release-1.16.html">1.16 release notes</a>).
<p><a href="betarecoll-2240.tar.gz">betarecoll-2240.tar.gz</a>.</p>
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<h3>Ubuntu Unity Lens and Scope</h3>
<p>You will probably get these from the <a href="#ubuntu">PPA</a>, but
here are the source files. These are not included in the main tar file
any more. For recoll 1.19 and 1.20 installations (choose on the
Ubuntu version, not the Recoll one):
<blockquote>
<a href="recoll-lens-1.19.10.3543.tar.gz">
recoll-lens-1.19.10.3543.tar.gz</a> (Recoll 0.19 or 0.20,
Ubuntu up to 13.04 Raring)<br>
<a href="unity-scope-recoll-1.20.2.4.tar.gz">
unity-scope-recoll-1.20.2.4.tar.gz</a> (Recoll 0.19 or 0.20, Ubuntu
13.10 and later).<br>
</blockquote>
For Recoll 1.18:
<a href="recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz">recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz</a><br>
For Recoll 1.17:
<a href="recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz">recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz</a>
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<h3>Prerequisites for building from source:</h3>
<ul>
<li>C++ compiler. Its absence sometimes manifests itself by strange messages
about iconv_open (fixed after 1.13.04).</li>
<li><p>Xapian core development libraries. Most Linux distributions carry them
in their package repository. Or you will find source and binary packages on
the <a href="http://www.xapian.org/download.php">Xapian download page</a>.
<br>
Recoll should still work with Xapian 1.0, but it is highly recommended to
use a Xapian 1.2 version.</p>
<p><em>Note on building Xapian for older CPUs:</em> The build
configurations for Xapian releases 1.0.21 and 1.2.1 or newer enable the use
of SSE2 floating point instructions. These instructions are not available
in CPUs older than Intel Pentium��4 or AMD Athlon��64. When building for such
a CPU, you need to add the --disable-sse flag to the Xapian library
configure command. If this is not done, the problem signals itself by
"Illegal instruction" crashes (SIGILL) in recollindex and recoll. </p>
</li>
<li>X11 development files.</li>
<li>zlib development files.</li>
<li><p>Qt development files: Qt 4.4 or newer. The Recoll GUI will not build
with Qt releases older than 4.4.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Qt webkit development: Qt WebKit is quite often distributed apart from
the main Qt lib. It is possible to configure Recoll not to use Qt WebKit
(see configure��--help).</p>
</li>
<li>Python development package: you can avoid needing this by configuring
with --disable-python-module.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Source repository:</h3>
<p>The <span class="application">Recoll</span> source repository is hosted on
<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/overview">bitbucket.org</a>. The
trunk is usually a bit on the bleeding edge, but there is always a maintenance
branch for the current production version.</p>
<h3>Instructions for building</h3>
<p>Normally, it's just <tt>./configure; make; make install</tt>. If a bit
more detail is needed,
<a href="http://www.recoll.org/usermanual/RCL.INSTALL.BUILDING.html">
there is some in the manual</a>.
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<h2><a name="packages">Packages</a></h2>
<p>Packages or ports for Recoll are available in the standard repositories for
many distributions.</p>
<p>However they are often a bit older or built with older Xapian releases. Here
follow some pointers to find newer packages for some
distributions. In most cases, you will just need to use an
alternate repository.</p>
<p>I sometimes build binary packages when no appropriate repository
exists. Any binary package directly linked from this page need a Qt
4 (4.4 at least) runtime environment. To make things easier, on
systems where Xapian is not available from the standard package
repositories, the Recoll package will have a static link to Xapian
so that you do not need to build/install it separately.</p>
<h3><a name="debian">Debian</a></h3>
<p>The Debian Recoll packages are usually fairly up to date (at least in
testing), just use the appropriate Debian repository.</p>
<p><i>Except they're not at the moment (2015-05)...</i>. So
I am maintaining a repository for packages built for Debian
Wheezy. To add the repository to your sources:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create and edit <span class="filename">
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/recoll.list</span>
and add the following lines:<br>
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deb http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ unstable main
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<li>Then:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll
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</li>
</ul>
<p>If you prefer to manually install the packages, they are here:
<a href="debian/pool/main/r/recoll/">debian/pool/main/r/recoll/</a><br/>
</p>
<p>The official Debian repository has 1.20.3 packages for Sid. I guess
that they should run on Jessie. Contact me if this does not work for you.</p>
<h3><a name="ubuntu">Ubuntu</a></h3>
<p>There are Personal Package Archives on launchpad.net for <a
href="https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/recoll-1.15-on">Recoll,
kio-recoll and recoll-lens</a>. These were built from the latest versions, for
a set of Ubuntu series. starting at Lucid. The installation is very simple: </p>
<pre><tt>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll
</tt></pre>
<p>The 1.19/1.20 packages in the PPA now have a separate package
for the Python extension, like the standard ones, so there should be
no more conflict issues while switching from the PPA to the normal
repositories and back.</p>
<h3><a name="mint">Linux Mint</a></h3>
<p>The Ubuntu PPA works perfectly for Mint 13 (and probably other releases
too). Just follow the instructions for Ubuntu.</p>
<h3>RPMS</h3>
<p>You'll need to install the Xapian, Qt, Qt-Webkit and zlib development
packages if you want use the source rpms.</p>
<h3>Fedora</h3>
<p>Recoll is present in the standard Fedora package repositories starting from
F-12. Fedora 21 has up to date packages. Here are some packages
for <a href="fedora20">Fedora 20</a>. There are only x86_64 binaries
for now, use the source rpm for other archs.</p>
<h3>CentOS 7.1</h3>
<p>CentOS ships neither Xapian nor Recoll. <a href="centos71">Here are
some packages.</a>. There are only x86_64 binaries
for now, use the source rpm for other archs. As far as I know, the
only specific issue is that CentOS does not seem to have the Qt
WebKit module. The Recoll build uses QTextBrowser instead of a
WebKit QWebView, so no Javascript or advanced CSS in the result list
or snippets window for you.</p>
<h3>OpenSUSE</h3>
<p>Recoll is in the KDE:Extra repository. You just need to add the
repository to your software
sources (Yast2->software->Software repositories).<br>
<a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/">
Repository list (supported Suse versions)</a>.
After adding the appropriate repository to your software sources,
you will be able to install recoll and kio_recoll from the software
management interface. The Xapian dependancy will also be satisfied
from the build service repository. Some of the older repositories do
not build antiword, just tell the software manager to "break" recoll
by installing anyway, and get antiword somewhere else.</p>
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<h3>Mageia</h3>
<p>Mageia version 2: <a
href="mageia2/recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm">mageia2/recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm,
</a><a
href="mageia2/recoll-debug-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm">recoll-debug-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm</a>.
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Source: <a
href="mageia2/recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.src.rpm">recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.src.rpm</a>
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<h2><a name="ports">Ports</a></h2>
<h3>Mac port</h3>
<p>It seems that Recoll will sometimes find data that Spotlight misses
(especially inside pdfs apparently, which is probably more to the credit of
poppler than recoll itself).</p>
<p>Recoll is in MacPorts and really easy to install:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts">Install
MacPorts</a>.</li>
<li>Type "sudo port install recoll"</li>
</ol>
<p>Recoll is then available from the command line and as an icon in the usual
MacPorts applications place.</p>
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<div id="filters">
<h2><a name="filters">Updated filters</a></h2>
<p><a href="filters/filters.html">new or updated filters</a>
sometimes become available after a release. As a rule, all
filters are compatible with all Recoll versions. Any
compatibility problem will be explicitely mentionned.</p>
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<h2><a name="translations">Translations</a></h2>
<p>Most of the translations for 1.20 are incomplete The source translation
files are included in the source release. If your language has some english
messages left and you want to take a shot at fixing the problem, you can send
the results to <a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">me</a> and earn my gratefulness
(and your less multilingual compatriot's)...</p>
<p>You can use the <em>.ts</em> file to alter the translations if you wish (use
Qt's <em>linguist</em> tool to edit the source file, then <em>lrelease</em> to
produce the <em>.qm</em> file.). The <literal>.qm</literal>file should be
copied to <span class="filename">/usr/[local/]share/recoll/translations</span>
</p>
<p><a href="translations/recoll_xx.ts">recoll_xx.ts</a> is a blank
Recoll 1.20 message file, handy to work on a new translation. You can
also <a href="translations/">list the directory</a> to see all the
translation files (same as those in the 1.20 source branch on
Bitbucket).</p>
<h3>Updated 1.20 translations that became available after the release:</h3>
<p>A Danish translation by Morten Langlo:
<a href="translations/recoll_da.ts">recoll_da.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_da.qm">recoll_da.qm</a><br/>
</p>
<p>Note that, if you are running an older release, you may find updated
messages by looking inside the appropriate maintenance branch on <a
href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/src">bitbucket</a>.</p>
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