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<h1>Recoll downloads</h1>
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<h2><a name="general">General information</a></h2>
<p>The current version is 1.22.4. <a href="release-1.22.html">Release
notes</a>.</p>
<p>Recoll <a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INSTALL">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.</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-1.21.html">release file</a>), there
is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.</p>
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<div id="bugs">
<h2><a name="bugs">Known bugs</a></h2>
<p>There is a <a href="BUGS.html">history of known bugs</a>, sorted
by fix release. Also see
the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues">
issue tracker on Bitbucket</a>.
</p>
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<h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
<h3>Current release distribution: 1.22.4:</h3>
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subdirectory, because of all the places they're referred from
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<p><a href="recoll-1.22.4.tar.gz">recoll-1.22.4.tar.gz</a>.</p>
<p><a href="release-1.22.html">The release notes</a>.</p>
<h3>Previous production release 1.21.7:</h3>
<p><a href="recoll-1.21.7.tar.gz">recoll-1.21.7.tar.gz</a>.</p>
<p><a href="release-1.21.html">The release notes</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>Ubuntu Unity Lens and Scope</h3>
<p>You will probably get these from the <a href="#ubuntu">PPA</a>, but
here are the source files. These are not included in the main tar file
any more. For any Recoll version after 1.19 (choose on the
Ubuntu version, not the Recoll one):
<blockquote>
<a href="recoll-lens-1.19.10.3543.tar.gz">
recoll-lens-1.19.10.3543.tar.gz</a> (Ubuntu up to 13.04
Raring)<br>
<a href="unity-scope-recoll-1.20.2.4.tar.gz">
unity-scope-recoll-1.20.2.4.tar.gz</a> (Ubuntu 13.10 and
later).<br>
</blockquote>
For Recoll 1.18:
<a href="recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz">
recoll-lens-1.18.1.2997.tar.gz</a><br>
For Recoll 1.17:
<a href="recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz">
recoll-lens-1.17.2.2697.tar.gz</a>
</p>
<h3>Prerequisites for building from source:</h3>
<ul>
<li>C++ compiler. Be aware that its absence sometimes
manifests itself by quite cryptic messages.</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>
<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>Qt development files: Qt 4.4, 5.3 or newer (5.2 not ok).</li>
<li>Qt WebKit development files: these are quite often
distributed apart from the main Qt libraries. It is
possible to configure Recoll not to use Qt WebKit (see
configure��--help).</li>
<li>zlib development files.</li>
<li>X11 development files.</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>Instructions for building</h3>
<p>Normally, it's just:</p>
<div class="code">./configure; make; make install</div>
<p>If a bit more detail is needed,
<a href="http://www.recoll.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INSTALL.BUILDING">
there is some in the manual</a>.
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<div id="packages">
<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 some pointers to find newer
packages for some distributions. In most cases, you will
just need to use an alternate repository.</p>
<h3><a name="debian">Debian</a></h3>
<p>The Debian Recoll packages are usually fairly up to date, just use
the appropriate Debian repository.</p>
<p><i>Except they're not at the moment
(2016-09)...</i>. Debian stable has Recoll 1.17.3. Debian
testing has 1.22.3, and it may work on Jessie (or not...).
In any case, I am maintaining a repository for packages
built for Debian Wheezy, and Jessie. The repository
currently has recoll 1.22.x for Intel and 1.21 for armhf. To
add it to your sources:</p>
<ul>
<li>Download the public key used to validate the repositories:
<div class="code">
wget -O - https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/key/jf@dockes.org.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
</div>
</li>
<li>Create and edit <span class="filename">
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/recoll.list</span>
and add the following lines:<br>
for wheezy (debian 7.x):<br>
<div class="code">
deb http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ wheezy main
</div>
for jessie (debian 8.x):<br>
<div class="code">
deb http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/debian/ jessie main
</div>
<li>Then:
<div class="code">
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll python-recoll python3-recoll
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</li>
</ul>
<p>If you prefer to manually install the packages, they are here:
<a href="debian/pool/main/r/recoll/">
debian/pool/main/r/recoll/</a><br/>
</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 the current set of supported Ubuntu
versions. Procedure:</p>
<div class="code">
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll
</div>
<p>The packages in the PPA now have a separate package for the Python
extension, like the standard ones, so there should be no more
conflict issues while switching from the PPA to the normal
repositories and back.</p>
<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. Recoll packages in Fedora are usually fairly up to
date. Please get in touch if you have a need for a Recoll package
for Fedora.</p>
<h3>CentOS 7.1</h3>
<p>CentOS ships neither Xapian nor Recoll. <a href="centos71">Here are
some packages.</a>. There are only x86_64 binaries
for now, use the source rpm for other archs. As far as I know, the
only specific issue is that CentOS does not seem to have the Qt
WebKit module. The Recoll build uses QTextBrowser instead of a
WebKit QWebView, so no Javascript or advanced CSS in the result list
or snippets window for you.</p>
<h3>OpenSUSE</h3>
<p>Recoll is in the KDE:Extra repository. 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>
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<h3>Mageia</h3>
<p>Mageia version 2: <a
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href="mageia2/recoll-debug-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm">recoll-debug-1.18.1-1.mga2.i586.rpm</a>.
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<h2><a name="windows">Microsoft Windows Setup Files</a></h2>
<p>The port of Recoll to Windows is still a bit experimental and
lacking things like real-time indexing or spelling
suggestions. However it works well enough to be useful. More info
and links to the setup
files <a href="pages/recoll-windows.html">here</a>.</p>
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<div id="ports">
<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>
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<div id="filters">
<h2><a name="filters">Updated filters</a></h2>
<p><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>
</div>
<div id="translations">
<h2><a name="translations">Translations</a></h2>
<p>Most of the translations for 1.22 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 <em>.qm</em> 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 1.22 message file, handy to work on a new translation. You can
also <a href="translations/">list the directory</a> to see all the
translation files (same as those in the maintenance source branch on
Bitbucket).</p>
<h3>Updated 1.22 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<p>Greek translation by Dimitrios Glentadakis:
<a href="translations/recoll_el.ts">recoll_el.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_el.qm">recoll_el.qm</a><br/>
</p>
<p>Dutch translation by Leslie Scheelings:
<a href="translations/recoll_nl.ts">recoll_nl.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_nl.qm">recoll_nl.qm</a><br/>
</p>
<p>Danish translation by Morten Langlo:
<a href="translations/recoll_da.ts">recoll_da.ts</a>
<a href="translations/recoll_da.qm">recoll_da.qm</a><br/>
</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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