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<h1>Recoll downloads</h1>
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<h2><a>General information</a></h2>
<p>The current version is 1.19.0. <a href="release-1.19.html">Release
notes</a>.</p>
<p>The download page for Recoll 1.18 is <a href="download-1.18.html">still
available</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. Also <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>
<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-1.19.html">release file</a>), there
is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.</p>
<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<h3>Current release distribution: 1.19.0:</h3>
<!-- Attention: source packages must remain here, not in a
subdirectory, because of all the places they're referred from
(package watches) -->
<p><a href="recoll-1.19.0.tar.gz">recoll-1.19.0.tar.gz</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>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>Older recoll releases:</h3>
<p><a href="recoll-1.18.2.tar.gz">1.18.2</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.18.1.tar.gz">1.18.1</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.17.3.tar.gz">1.17.3</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.16.2.tar.gz">1.16.2</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.15.9.tar.gz">1.15.9</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.14.4.tar.gz">1.14.4</a>. <a
href="recoll-1.13.04.tar.gz">1.13.04</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.12.4.tar.gz">1.12.4</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.11.4.tar.gz">1.11.4</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.10.6.tar.gz">1.10.6</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.9.0.tar.gz">1.9.0</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.8.2.tar.gz">1.8.2</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.7.6.tar.gz">1.7.6</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.6.3.tar.gz">1.6.3</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.5.11.tar.gz">1.5.11</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.4.3.tar.gz">1.4.3</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.3.3.tar.gz">1.3.3</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.2.3.tar.gz">1.2.3</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.1.0.tar.gz">1.1.0</a>. <a
href="older/recoll-1.0.16.tar.gz">1.0.16</a>. </p>
<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 a number of updated packages and instructions for a number of
distributions.</p>
<p>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.</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>
<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>Source code for the lens (also included in the main recoll tar file):<br>
For 1.19 installations: <a
href="recoll-lens-1.19.0.3315.tar.gz">recoll-lens-1.19.0.3315.tar.gz</a><br>
For 1.18: <a
href="recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz">recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz</a><br>
For 1.17: <a
href="recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz">recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz</a></p>
<p>The packages in the standard repository and on the PPA are a bit different
in the sense that the Python extension is included in the PPA package, but it's
a separate package in the standard repository. This can give rise to errors
about overwriting the Python module when switching between versions. Typically,
the error message would be like the following:</p>
<pre><tt>
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/recoll.so', which is also in package recoll 1.18.1-1~ppa1~quantal1</tt></pre>
<p>If this happens, you just need to delete the previous package(s) before
installing the other one(s) instead of performing an upgrade.</p>
<blockquote>
<h4>Notes for Ubuntu Lucid</h4>
<ul>
<li>If you use Ubuntu 10.04 (<em>Lucid</em>), you will need to add the <a
href="https://launchpad.net/~xapian-backports/+archive/xapian-1.2">Xapian
backports PPA</a> to provide the <tt>libxapian22</tt> package</li>
<li>The <tt><code>rclepub</code></tt> filter apparently needs <tt>Python
2.7</tt>. You will need to install it and modify the first line of the
filter script to execute <tt>python2.7</tt> instead of
<tt>python</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<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. The new versions are tracked quite closely, so I don't build the rpms any
more (email me if you need one).</p>
<h3>OpenSUSE</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Recoll is in the KDE:Extra repository <!-- I now use the OpenSUSE build service to create Recoll
OpenSUSE packages. -->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>
</blockquote>
<h3>Mageia</h3>
<blockquote>
<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>.
<br>
Source: <a
href="mageia2/recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.src.rpm">recoll-1.18.1-1.mga2.src.rpm</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
<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>
<h2>Building on Solaris</h2>
<p>I did not test building the GUI on Solaris for this version. You will need
at least Qt 4.4. The old hints in <a href="download-1.14.html">the previous
page</a> may still be valid.</p>
<p>Someone did test the indexer and Python module build, they do work, with a
few minor glitches. Be sure to use GNU <b>make</b> and <b>install</b>.</p>
<h2><a name="translations">Translations</a></h2>
<p>Most of the translations for 1.19 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 1.19
message file, handy to work on a new translation.</p>
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<h3>Updated 1.18 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<p>A Czech translation for 1.18, thanks to Pavel
<a href="translations/recoll_cs.ts">recoll_cs.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_cs.qm">recoll_cs.qm</a>
</p>
<p>A Greek translation for 1.17, thanks to Dimitrios
<a href="translations/recoll_el.ts">recoll_el.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_el.qm">recoll_el.qm</a>
</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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