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<h1>Recoll downloads</h1>
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<td><a href="#source">Source</a></td>
<td><a href="#rpms">Rpm/deb packages</a></td>
<td><a href="BUGS.html">Known bugs</a></td>
<td><a href="#otherbinary">Other binary packages</a></td>
<td><a href="#ports">Bsd port</a></td>
<td><a href="#filters">Filters</a> </td>
<td><a href="#translations">Translations</a></td>
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<h2><a>General information and release notes</a></h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: version 1.12 indexes are
mostly compatible with 1.11, but some new, relatively minor,
features (ie: duplicates collapsing) depend on a full index
rebuild.
<br>If installing over 1.10 or older, you need a full
rebuild. The best way to do this is to just delete the old
xapiandb directory, especially if the index was created by an
older version.
(ie: <tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb/</tt>). On very
old indexes, <tt>recollindex -z</tt> may sometimes end
with a <em>backend doesn't implement metadata</em> error,
which is wasteful because you then need to delete xapiandb and
run the indexing again.</p>
<p>The download page for Recoll 1.11 is
<a href="download-1.11.html">still available</a>.</p>
<p>Instructions: <a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">
Installation / building manual</a>.</p>
<p>Most binary packages on this page need a Qt 3.3 runtime
environment (QT 4.x is specified for a few). They are
statically linked with Xapian, which you don't need to
install separately.</p>
<p>Optional packages used by document filters:
<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INSTALL.EXTERNAL">
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:jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr">
report them</a>.</p>
<h3>What do the release numbers mean?</h3>
<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="CHANGES.html">changes file</a>), there is
probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.</p>
<h2><a name="filters">Updated filters</a></h2>
<p>New and updated filters are sometimes
<a href="filters/filters.html">available</a> before the next
Recoll release. The most notable current set is for the Open
XML office document formats, not included for Recoll releases older
than 1.10.5.</p>
<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<p><b>Current version:</b> 1.12.2:
<a href="src/recoll-1.12.2.tar.gz">recoll-1.12.2.tar.gz</a>.
<a href="CHANGES.html">Changes</a>. <a href="BUGS.html">Bugs</a>.
</p>
<p>In order to build Recoll from source, you will need to install
the Xapian core development libraries. You will find source and binary
packages on the <a href="http://www.xapian.org/download.php">
Xapian download page</a>.
Recoll 1.12 needs at least xapian 1.0.5, I suggest
using the latest 1.0 Xapian (1.0.16 currently). Xapian
versions after 1.0.12 don't need the
<a href="BUGS.html#XapianNearPatch">NEAR patch</a> any more.</p>
<table>
<tr><td valign="top">Qt:</td>
<td>
You can build with Qt 3.3 or Qt 4. Recoll will
automatically be configured to build with Qt 4 if the version
of qmake found in $QTDIR/bin:$PATH is for Qt 4 (you can also
set the QMAKE variable to explicitely choose the
desired version).</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>
There seems to be a few issues in Qt 4.4.0 (2008-08-23),
resulting in problems when displaying the Recoll result list. I
suggest avoiding this release. Qt 4.3.x and
4.4.1 work fine.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>Older recoll releases:
<a href="src/recoll-1.12.1.tar.gz">1.12.1</a>.
<a href="src/recoll-1.11.4.tar.gz">1.11.4</a>.
<a href="src/recoll-1.10.6.tar.gz">1.10.6</a>.
<a href="src/recoll-1.9.0.tar.gz">1.9.0</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.8.2.tar.gz">1.8.2</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.7.6.tar.gz">1.7.6</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.6.3.tar.gz">1.6.3</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.5.11.tar.gz">1.5.11</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.4.3.tar.gz">1.4.3</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.3.3.tar.gz">1.3.3</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.2.3.tar.gz">1.2.3</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.1.0.tar.gz">1.1.0</a>.
<a href="src/older/recoll-1.0.16.tar.gz">1.0.16</a>.
</p>
<p>A separate source file contains a KDE kicker applet to start
a Recoll search from the KDE toolbar:
<a href="src/recoll_applet-1.10.0.tgz">recoll_applet-1.10.0.tgz</a>.
This is a very slightly modified version of the
<a href="http://demandiseineseite.gmxhome.de/find/">
find_applet</a>. It will work with any recoll version after 1.10.</p>
<h2><a name="rpms">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>
<h3>Ubuntu</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>There are Personal Package Archives on
launchpad.net for
<a href="http://www.launchpad.net/~xapian-backports/+archive/ppa">
Xapian</a> and
<a href="http://www.launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">
Recoll</a>. These hold the latest versions, compiled for a
set of Ubuntu series.
You just need to add the PPAs to your system software sources,
and you can then install the normal package manager to install
or update Recoll and Xapian.
To avoid messages about signature errors, you will have to
import the Recoll and Xapian public keys:
<pre><tt>
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 -
</tt></pre>
</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>RPMS</h3>
<p><i>The executables inside the binary rpms which follow have a
static link to Xapian 1.0.16, there is no real dependency except Qt 3
or Qt 4.<br>
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.
<br>You need to install the Xapian library development
package if you want use the source rpms.</i></p>
<h3>Fedora</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Fedora Core 6 with Qt 3.3.8</b>
<a href="fc6/recoll-1.12.2-1.i386.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1.i386.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc6/recoll-1.12.2-1.src.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1.src.rpm</a>
This package usually also installs and runs on Fedora 9.
</p>
<p><b>Fedora Core 10 with Qt 4</b>
<a href="fc10/recoll-1.12.2-1.fc10.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1.fc10.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc10/recoll-1.12.2-1.fc10.src.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1.fc10.src.rpm</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>OpenSUSE</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><b>OpenSUSE 11.0 with qt3</b>:
<a href="suse11.0/recoll-1.12.2-0.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-0.i586.rpm</a>.
Source: <a href="suse11.0/recoll-1.12.2-0.src.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-0.src.rpm</a></p>
<p><b>OpenSUSE 11.1 with qt4</b>:
<a href="suse11.1/recoll-1.12.2-0.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-0.i586.rpm</a>.
Source: <a href="suse11.1/recoll-1.12.2-0.src.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-0.src.rpm</a></p>
<p>If you build from source on OpenSUSE 11, note that the default
qt4 version on some systems is 4.4.0 which will badly
display the the result list icons. Use qt3 or install a
newer version of qt4.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Mandriva</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Mandriva 2008 with Qt 4</b>:
<a href="mandriva2008spring/recoll-1.12.2-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="mandriva2008spring/recoll-1.12.2-1mdv2008.1.src.rpm">
recoll-1.12.2-1mdv2008.1.src.rpm</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="otherbinary">Binary bundles</a></h2>
<p>These are just prebuilt trees (without the source files).
The executables were built with xapian 1.0.8 (patched for the
NEAR bug) and libiconv 1.9.2 (where relevant) as static
libraries. They depend on miscellaneous versions of Qt. For
Solaris, you should be able to find a Qt package on
<a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">sunfreeware</a>.</p>
<p><a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">Installation
instructions here</a>.</p>
<h3>FreeBSD</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>The FreeBSD ports track the Recoll releases quite
closely, so there is actually little point in using the
following. Only for the <i>really</i> impatient:</p>
<p><b>FreeBSD 6.4 i386 Qt 4.4.3</b>:
<a href="freebsd/recoll-1.12.2-FreeBSD-6.4-STABLE.tgz">
recoll-1.12.2-FreeBSD-6.4-STABLE.tgz</a>
</p>
<p><b>FreeBSD 7.2 i386 Qt 4.5.2</b>:
<a href="freebsd/recoll-1.12.2-FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE.tgz">
recoll-1.12.2-FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE.tgz</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Solaris</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Note to Solaris users: you need to perform the initial
indexing pass with "recollindex", not the recoll GUI indexing
thread. See <a href="BUGS.html">errata</a>.
<p><b>Solaris 8 SPARC</b>:
<a href="sunos/recoll-1.12.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz">
recoll-1.12.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz</a>. </p>
<p>Recoll also builds and runs on Solaris 10, but, given the
situation (2008) of open source packages for Solaris (very old
Qt on the Companion CD, inconsistent versions of the compiler and
non-threaded version of Qt on sunfreeware), I've come to the
temporary conclusion that you are better off building than
trying to install packages. The approach I tried in 2008 and
which worked was to:
<ul>
<li>Install gcc 3.4.6 and gnu make from the sunfreeware
packages (go to /usr/local). I guess that the gcc in
/usr/sfw should be ok too here.</li>
<li>Compile xapian-core and install it (with prefix /usr/local).</li>
<li>Configure and install Qt. The following config worked for me,
with Qt 3.3.8:
<pre><tt>
./configure -platform solaris-g++ -prefix /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-3.3.8/ -thread
</tt></pre>
Then make. Weirdly, I had to add the Qt build lib/
directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at some point during the
build).
</li>
<li>Set QTDIR=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-3.3.8 and
QMAKESPEC=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-3.3.8/mkspecs/solaris-g++
and add $QTDIR/bin to the PATH then configure, make and
install Recoll</li>
<li>Don't forget to use <tt>recollindex</tt> for the first index
build, <tt>recoll</tt> does not work for this (exception handling
mystery probably).</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Obviously, there are other ways to do it (use CC, install
some place else ... ), but I tried this one.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="ports">FreeBSD ports</a></h2>
<p>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.
<a href="http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/databases/xapian-core">
xapian port</a>
<a href="http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/deskutils/recoll">
recoll port</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="translations">Translations</a></h2>
<p>Most of the translations for 1.12 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:jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr">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 1.12 message file, handy to work on a new translation.</p>
<h3>Updated 1.12 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<!-- <p>None for now :(</p> -->
<!--
<p>German.
<a href="translations/recoll_de.ts">recoll_de.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_de.qm">recoll_de.qm</a>
</p>
-->
<p>Ukrainian.
<a href="translations/recoll_uk.ts">recoll_uk.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_uk.qm">recoll_uk.qm</a>
</p>
<p>Russian.
<a href="translations/recoll_ru.ts">recoll_ru.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_ru.qm">recoll_ru.qm</a>
</p>
<!--
<p><b>Italian</b>. Thanks to Mario, Christian and Giovanni for this.
<a href="translations/recoll_it.ts">recoll_it.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_it.qm">recoll_it.qm</a>
</p>
<p><b>Turkish</b>. Thanks Serdar.
<a href="translations/recoll_tr.ts">recoll_tr.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_tr.qm">recoll_tr.qm</a>
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