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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="#ports">Mac ports</a></td>
<td><a href="filters/filters.html">Filters</a> </td>
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<h2><a>General information</a></h2>
<p>The current version is 1.17.0. <a href="release-1.17.html">
Release notes</a>.</p>
<p>The download page for Recoll 1.16 is
<a href="download-1.16.html">still available</a>.</p>
<p>Recoll <a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">
Installation / building manual</a>.</p>
<p>The indexing filters for some document types may need
external packages not installed on your system by default, and
not installed automatically with Recoll:
<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: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="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. As far as I know, all current filters are
fully compatible with older Recoll releases (from 1.13), so
you can install new or updated filters on
older Recoll packages and gain new file type support without
destabilizing your search setup.</p>
<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<h3>Current release distribution: 1.17.0:</h3>
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subdirectory, because of all the places they're referred from
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<p><a href="recoll-1.17.0.tar.gz">recoll-1.17.0.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.</p>
<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>Python development package: you can avoid needing this by
configuring with --disable-python-module.</li>
</ul>
<h3>KDE3 kicker applet:</h3>
<p>the applet can start a Recoll search
from the KDE3 toolbar. It is in a separate source file.
<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>. It will work with any recoll version after
1.10. <em>KDE 3 only</em>.</p>
<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-1.16.2.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="recoll-1.12.4.tar.gz">1.12.4</a>.
<a href="recoll-1.11.4.tar.gz">1.11.4</a>.
<a href="recoll-1.10.6.tar.gz">1.10.6</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>
<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>
<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>
<blockquote>
<p>There are Personal Package Archives on launchpad.net for
<a href="http://www.launchpad.net/~xapian-backports/+archive/xapian-1.2">
Xapian</a>,
<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.</p>
<p>Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) and later versions just need the Recoll
PPA. Older versions also needed a backport for Xapian
(xapian-backports/xapian-1.2).</p>
<p>Just add the PPA to your system software sources (the
instructions are on the PPA page or
<a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware">
here</a>), and you can then use the normal package
manager to install or update Recoll.
<pre><tt>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
</tt></pre>
</p>
<p>Only for Ubuntu versions before 9.10 (Karmic):
<pre><tt>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xapian-backports/xapian-1.2
</tt></pre>
</p>
<p>For Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and older, you may also have to
explicitely 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>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'll need to install the Xapian, Qt, and zlib development
packages if you want use the source rpms.</i></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>
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<p>These builds depend on the
regular Xapian and zlib rpms from the Fedora repositories.
<br>Fedora 14
<a href="fc14/recoll-1.16.1-1.fc14.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.16.1-1.fc14.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc14/recoll-1.16.1-1.fc14.src.rpm">
recoll-1.16.1-1.fc14.src.rpm</a>
<br>Fedora 15
<a href="fc15/recoll-1.16.1-1.fc15.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.16.1-1.fc15.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc15/recoll-1.16.1-1.fc15.src.rpm">
recoll-1.16.1-1.fc15.src.rpm</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
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<h3>OpenSUSE</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Recoll is in the KDE:Extra repository
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I now use the OpenSUSE build service to create Recoll OpenSUSE packages.
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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>Mandriva</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Mandriva linux one 2010 using Qt 4 and the Xapian version
from the Mandriva repository.:
<a href="mandriva2010/recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="mandriva2010/recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.src.rpm">
recoll-1.16.2-1mdv2010.2.src.rpm</a>
</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="otherbinary">Binary bundles</a></h2>
<p><i>There are currently no more binary bundles. Section kept as
placeholder</i>.</p>
<p>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
<a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">sunfreeware</a>.</p>
<p><a href="usermanual/rcl.install.html">Installation
instructions here</a>.</p>
<h3>Solaris</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>I did not test building 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>
</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><a name="translations">Translations</a></h2>
<p>Most of the translations for 1.17 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 1.17 message file, handy to work on a new translation.</p>
<h3>Updated 1.17 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<p>Nothing new for 1.17 for now.</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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<p>A new Spanish translation for 1.16.2, thanks to JCP.
<a href="translations/recoll_es.ts">recoll_es.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_es.qm">recoll_es.qm</a>
</p>
<p>The following are up to date in 1.16.2, but may be useful if you
are running 1.16.1.</p>
<p>Czech, 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>Russian, thanks to Gleb.
<a href="translations/recoll_ru.ts">recoll_ru.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_ru.qm">recoll_ru.qm</a>
</p>
<p>Lithuanian.
<a href="translations/recoll_lt.ts">recoll_lt.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_lt.qm">recoll_lt.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><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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