Recoll downloads
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General information
The current version is 1.15.0. Release notes.
The download page for Recoll 1.14 is still available.
Recoll Installation / building manual.
The indexing filters for some document types may need external packages not installed on your system by default, and not installed automatically with Recoll: take a look at the list and decide what you need to install.
The Recoll term explorer tool in phonetic mode (marginally useful and optional) uses the aspell package, version 0.60 (utf-8 support) or newer.
If you find problems with this page, the package or its installation, please report them.
What do the release numbers mean?
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.
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.
Z changes for bug fixes only, and moving from X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+u should in general involve little risk of regression. But, any change can bring problems, if you are not affected by the corrected bugs (check the changes file), there is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.
Updated filters
New and updated filters are sometimes available before the next Recoll release.
Source
Current release distribution: 1.15.0:
Prerequisites for building from source:
- C++ compiler. Its absence sometimes manifests itself by strange messages about iconv_open (fixed after 1.13.04).
Xapian core development libraries. Most Linux distributions carry them in their package repository. Or you will find source and binary packages on the Xapian download page.
Recoll 1.15 needs at least xapian 1.0.12. It is compatible with all later Xapian releases, including the 1.2.x series.Note on building Xapian for older CPUs: 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.
- X11 development files.
- zlib development files.
Qt development files: Qt 4.4 or newer. The Recoll GUI will not build with Qt releases older than 4.4.
KDE kicker applet:
the applet can start a Recoll search from the KDE toolbar. It is in a separate source file. recoll_applet-1.10.0.tgz. This is a very slightly modified version of the find_applet. It will work with any recoll version after 1.10.
Source repository:
The Recoll source repository is hosted on bitbucket.org. The trunk is usually a bit on the bleeding edge, but there is always a maintenance branch for the current production version.
Older recoll releases:
1.14.4. 1.13.04. 1.12.4. 1.11.4. 1.10.6. 1.9.0. 1.8.2. 1.7.6. 1.6.3. 1.5.11. 1.4.3. 1.3.3. 1.2.3. 1.1.0. 1.0.16.
Packages
Packages or ports for Recoll are available in the standard repositories for many distributions.
However they are often a bit older or built with older Xapian releases. Here follow a number of updated packages and instructions for a number of distributions.
All binary packages on 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.
Ubuntu
There are Personal Package Archives on launchpad.net for Xapian, Recoll and kio-recoll. These were built from the latest versions, for a set of Ubuntu series. You just need to add the PPAs to your system software sources (the instructions are on the PPA page or here), and you can then use the normal package manager to install or update Recoll and Xapian. To avoid messages about signature errors, if not done at the previous step, you may have to explicitely import the Recoll and Xapian public keys:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 9DA85604 gpg --export --armor 9DA85604 | sudo apt-key add - gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv A0735AD0 gpg --export --armor A0735AD0 | sudo apt-key add -For Jaunty and newer releases, the procedure has been simplified, and the 2 following commands perform the whole procedure:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xapian-backports/ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
RPMS
Except if specified otherwise, the
executables inside the binary rpms which follow have a
static link to Xapian (1.0.16-21), there is no hard dependency
except Qt 4.
Some Fedora and Mandriva packages unfortunately think that they
depend on exiftool (which is needed by the little used jpeg
info filter), due to excessive rpmbuild cleverness.
You'll need to install the Xapian, Qt, and zlib development
packages if you want use the source rpms.
Fedora
Recoll is present in the standard Fedora package repositories starting from F-12.
Fedora 12 and newer Recoll is now included in the regular Fedora package repositories.
These builds are not statically linked, but depend on the regular Xapian and zlib rpms from the Fedora repositories.
Fedora 12 recoll-1.15.0-1.fc12.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.15.0-1.fc12.src.rpm
Fedora 13 recoll-1.15.0-1.fc13.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.15.0-1.fc13.src.rpm
OpenSUSE
OpenSUSE 11.3 with qt4 and a static link to xapian 1.2.3 with the --disable-sse configure option: recoll-1.15.0-0.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.15.0-0.src.rpm
Mandriva
Mandriva linux one 2010 with Qt 4 and a static link to Xapian 1.2.3 with the --without-sse configure option.: recoll-1.15.0-1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.15.0-1mdv2010.2.src.rpm
Binary bundles
These are just prebuilt trees (without the source files). Xapian is statically linked. They still depend on Qt. For Solaris, you should be able to find a Qt package on sunfreeware.
Installation instructions here.
FreeBSD
The FreeBSD ports track the Recoll releases quite closely, so there is actually little point in using the following (except that the port is currently (10-2010) broken).
FreeBSD 7.3 i386 Qt 4.7.1 Statically linked to Xapian 1.2.3 with --disable-sse: recoll-1.15.0-FreeBSD-7.3-STABLE.tgz
Solaris
I did not test building on Solaris for this version. You will need at least Qt 4.4. The old hints in the previous page may still be valid.
FreeBSD ports
There are ports for both xapian-core and recoll in the standard tree, you may just need to update your ports (cvsup, portsnap), or you can get the ports from the FreeBSD site. xapian port recoll port.
Translations
Most of the translations for 1.15 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 me and earn my gratefulness (and your less multilingual compatriot's)...
You can use the .ts file to alter the translations if you
wish (use Qt's linguist tool to edit the source file,
then lrelease to produce the .qm file.).
The
recoll_xx.ts is a blank Recoll 1.15 message file, handy to work on a new translation.
Updated 1.15 translations that became available after the release:
None for now :(