--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -71,15 +71,15 @@
4.1.2. Installing a prebuilt Recoll
- 4.2. Building from source
-
- 4.2.1. Prerequisites
-
- 4.2.2. Building
-
- 4.2.3. Installation
-
- 4.3. Packages needed for external file types
+ 4.2. Packages needed for external file types
+
+ 4.3. Building from source
+
+ 4.3.1. Prerequisites
+
+ 4.3.2. Building
+
+ 4.3.3. Installation
4.4. Configuration overview
@@ -738,15 +738,48 @@
also means that you cannot change the versions which are used.
After extracting the tar file, you can proceed with installation as if you
- had built the package from source.
-
- The binary trees are built for installation to /usr/local.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-4.2. Building from source
-
- 4.2.1. Prerequisites
+ had built the package from source (that is, just type make install). The
+ binary trees are built for installation to /usr/local.
+
+ You may then need to install external applications to process some file
+ types that you want indexed (ie: acrobat, postscript ...). See next
+ section.
+
+ Finally, you may want to have a look at the configuration section.
+
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+4.2. Packages needed for 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 (these are
+ run-time dependencies. None is needed for building Recoll):
+
+ * PDF: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
+
+ * Postscript: pstotext.
+
+ * MS Word: antiword.
+
+ * MS Excel and PowerPoint: catdoc.
+
+ * RTF: unrtf
+
+ * dvi: dvips
+
+ * djvu: DjVuLibre
+
+ * MP3: Recoll will use the id3info command from the id3lib package to
+ extract tag information. Without it, only the filenames will be
+ indexed.
+
+ Text, Html, mail folders and Openoffice files are processed internally.
+
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+4.3. Building from source
+
+ 4.3.1. Prerequisites
At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core
package (Recoll development currently uses version 0.9.5), and the qt
@@ -763,7 +796,7 @@
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- 4.2.2. Building
+ 4.3.2. Building
Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005, Fedora Core 3),
FreeBSD and Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much
@@ -803,7 +836,7 @@
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- 4.2.3. Installation
+ 4.3.3. Installation
Either type make install or execute recollinstall prefix, in the root of
the source tree. This will copy the commands to prefix/bin and the sample
@@ -815,34 +848,6 @@
to be found.
You can then proceed to configuration.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-4.3. Packages needed for 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 (these are
- run-time dependencies. None is needed for building Recoll):
-
- * PDF: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
-
- * Postscript: pstotext.
-
- * MS Word: antiword.
-
- * MS Excel and PowerPoint: catdoc.
-
- * RTF: unrtf
-
- * dvi: dvips
-
- * djvu: DjVuLibre
-
- * MP3: Recoll will use the id3info command from the id3lib package to
- extract tag information. Without it, only the filenames will be
- indexed.
-
- Text, Html, mail folders and Openoffice files are processed internally.
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