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<h1>Recoll downloads</h1>
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<table width=100%><tbody><tr>
<td><a href="#rpms">Rpm and ubuntu/debian packages</a></td>
<td><a href="#otherbinary">Other binary packages</a></td>
<td><a href="#source">Source</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 name="source">General information</a></h2>
<p>You will probably need to have a look at the
<a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">installation manual</a> for
building and/or installation instructions.</p>
<p><i>For building from source</i>, you will need a xapian-core
installation. You will find source and binary packages on the
<a href="http://www.xapian.org/download.php">Xapian download
page</a>. Recoll 1.10.2 should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x
Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.5).</p>
<p>You need Qt 3.3 (or qt 4) in all cases. Recoll will
automatically be configured to build with qt4 if the version
of qmake found in $QTDIR/bin:$PATH is for qt4.</p>
<p>QT 4.4 note (2008-05-23): there seems to be a few problems in
Qt 4.4.0 (maybe in the qt3 compatibility layer), resulting in
problems in displaying the Recoll result list. I suggest
avoiding qt 4.4 with Recoll for now (qt 4.3 works fine).</p>
<p>Recoll relies on external packages for some
of its functionality (ie: for many of the non-text file
types). These are not listed as strict dependencies, because
the base application can be sufficient in some cases, but you
should have a look at the
<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INSTALL.EXTERNAL">list</a> to
decide what you may want to install.</p>
<p>In addition, optional functionality in Recoll (the term explorer
tool in phonetic mode) uses the <b>aspell</b> package. The
installed version should be at least 0.60 (utf-8 support) for
this to run smoothly. This function is far from essential.</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>
<p>The download page for the previous 1.9 version is still
<a href="download-1.9.html">here</a></p>
<h3>What do the release numbers mean?</h3>
<p>The Recoll releases are numbered X.Y.Z. </p>
<p>The first number would only change for really major
modifications like a big change in the index format. It is
quite possible that X will not actually ever change.</p>
<p>The second number (Y) is for functional
modifications. These may bring bugs, so if you're satisfied
with the previous version, and 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>The third number (Z) changes for bug fixes. A maintenance
branch is kept for each X.Y version, and we try to make
minimal changes on this. So, 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.txt">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. There are no updated filters for Recoll
1.10.2, but you may find some if you are running an older
release.</p>
<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<p><b>Current version:</b>
<p>1.10.2: <a href="recoll-1.10.2.tar.gz">recoll-1.10.2.tar.gz</a>
See the <a href="BUGS.txt">known bugs and issues</a> and
<a href="CHANGES.txt">changes</a>.</p>
<p>Recoll 1.10 will work with Xapian versions 0.9.x or 1.0.x but
1.0 is preferred. In order to take advantage of the new index
format in Xapian 1.0, Recoll users updating from 1.8 or older,
or who have skipped this step for 1.9 need to delete their old index.
<a href="xapUpg100.html">More details</a>.
This is not mandatory, and the old index format will continue
working just as before (but it is slower, and has a few bugs
fixed in 1.0).<em>You don't need to do this if you did it
for Recoll 1.9</em></p>
<p>If updating from 1.8 or older, and you had turned off the
mime type icons inside the result lists in your current Recoll
version, you need to do a small manual adjustment in 1.9/1.10
to achieve the same effect. See the first entry in
the <a href="CHANGES.txt">changes</a> list.</p>
<p>Older recoll releases:
<a href="recoll-1.10.1.tar.gz">1.10.1</a>.
<a href="recoll-1.10.0.tar.gz">1.10.0</a>.
<a href="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>
<p>A separate source file contains a KDE kicker applet to start
a Recoll search from the KDE toolbar:
<a href="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></p>
<h2><a name="rpms">Packages</a></h2>
<p>The executables inside the binary rpms have a static link to
xapian 1.0.4/5, there is no real dependency except Qt 3.3.
The 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>
Of course you need xapian-core installed to use the source
rpms. </p>
<p><b>Fedora Core</b>
FC6 RPM:
<a href="fc6/recoll-1.10.2-1.i386.rpm">
fc6/recoll-1.10.2-1.i386.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc6/recoll-1.10.2-1.src.rpm">
recoll-1.10.2-1.src.rpm</a>
</p>
<p><b>Mandriva 2006</b> (also works on 2005 and 2007).
RPM:
<a href="mandriva2006/recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="mandriva2006/recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm">
recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm</a>
</p>
<p><b>Suse 10.3</b>
RPM:
<a href="suse10.3/recoll-1.10.2-0.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.10.2-0.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="suse10.3/recoll-1.10.2-0.src.rpm">
recoll-1.10.2-0.src.rpm</a>
</p>
<p><b>Ubuntu 6.06 dapper / edgy / gutsy / hardy</b>
This has a static link on xapian 1.0.5:
<a href="debian/dapper/recoll_1.10.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb">
recoll_1.10.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb</a>
<a href="debian/dapper/">debian/dapper</a>. This package was
built on "dapper" and appears to work correctly on later
Ubuntu releases, so I skipped building specific packages for
them this time. Please contact me if this is a
problem.</p>
<p><b>Debian unstable</b> Recoll is in the package repository,
you can install it with the usual <em>apt-get install recoll</em>.
<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/recoll.html">
Package page</a></p>
<p><b>Debian 3.1</b> Thanks to Mario (<img align="top" src="mario.png">)
for these: i386:
<a href="debian/sarge/recoll_1.8.1-1_i386.deb">
recoll_1.8.1-1_i386.deb</a>.
amd64 version:
<a href="debian/sarge/recoll_1.8.1-1_amd64.deb">
recoll_1.8.1-1_amd64.deb</a>.
</p>
<h2><a name="otherbinary">Binary bundles</a></h2>
<p>These are just prebuilt trees (without the source files).
The executables were built with xapian 1.0.5 (patched for the
NEAR bug) and libiconv 1.9.2 (where relevant) as static
libraries. They depend on qt 3.3. For Solaris, you should be
able to find a qt package
<a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p>The installation instructions are <a
href="usermanual/rcl.install.binary.html"> there</a>.</p>
<p><span class="application">FreeBSD</span> 6.3 i386:
<a href="freebsd/recoll-1.10.2-FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE.tgz">
recoll-1.10.2-FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE.tgz</a>
</p>
<p><span class="application">Solaris 8</span> sparc.
Note to Solaris users: you need to perform the initial
indexing pass with "recollindex", not the recoll GUI indexing
thread. See <a href="BUGS.txt">errata</a>.
<a href="sunos/recoll-1.10.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz">
recoll-1.10.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz</a>.
<p>Recoll also builds and runs on Solaris 10, but, given the
situation 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 recently tried 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>
./configure -platform solaris-g++ -prefix /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-3.3.8/ -thread
</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 recollindex for the first index
build, recoll 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>
<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. The ports are not updated for the xapian
NEAR problem though.
<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>Some of the translations for 1.10 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 1.10 message file, handy to work on a new translation.</p>
<h3>Updated 1.10 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<p>German.
<a href="translations/recoll_de.ts">recoll_de.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_de.qm">recoll_de.qm</a>
</p>
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<p><b>Italian</b>. Thanks to Mario, Christian and Giovanni for this.
<a href="translations/recoll_it.ts">recoll_it.ts</a>
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<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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