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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</a></h2>
<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>1.11.2:
<a href="recoll-1.11.2.tar.gz">recoll-1.11.2.tar.gz</a>.
<a href="CHANGES.html">Changes</a>. <a href="BUGS.html">Bugs</a>.
<br>
Version 1.11 has relatively <a href="CHANGES.html">extensive
changes</a> (<a href="pics/recoll0.png">pic</a>), and needs an
index reset after installing over an 1.10 or older
version. For an existing installation you can use option -z to
the command line indexer: <tt>recollindex -z</tt>, or
just delete the old index directory
(ie: <tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb/</tt>). The
latter option may be safer with old indexes. If the first
1.11 indexing ends with an error like <em>backend doesn't
implement metadata</em>, you certainly need to do it.</p>
<p>The download page for Recoll 1.10 is
still <a href="download-1.10.html">still available</a>.</p>
<p>In order to build Recoll from source, 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 1.11 needs at least xapian 1.0.5, and I can see no
reason not to use the latest 1.0 Xapian (1.0.9 currently).</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.</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>
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<p>Older recoll releases:
<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>
<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.[4-9], there is no real dependency except Qt 3.3
(or Qt 4.1 when mentioned).
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-1.11.0-1.i386.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-1.i386.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="fc6/recoll-1.11.0-1.src.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-1.src.rpm</a>
This package also installs and runs on Fedora 9.
</p>
<p><b>Mandriva 2006</b> (also works on 2005 and 2007).
RPM:
<a href="mandriva2006/recoll-1.11.0-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="mandriva2006/recoll-1.11.0-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm</a>
</p>
<p><b>Suse 10.3 / 11.0</b>
RPM:
<a href="suse10.3/recoll-1.11.0-0.i586.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-0.i586.rpm</a>.
Source:
<a href="suse10.3/recoll-1.11.0-0.src.rpm">
recoll-1.11.0-0.src.rpm</a><br>
If you build from source on OpenSuse 11, note that the default
qt4 version is 4.4.0 which will badly display the result list
icons. Use qt3 or install a newer version of qt4.
</p>
<p><b>Ubuntu 6.06 dapper / edgy / gutsy / hardy</b>
<a href="debian/dapper/recoll_1.11.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb">
recoll_1.11.0-0ubuntu1_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. This package is not configured for real-time
indexing.</p>
<p>Here is a package for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy which supports
real-time indexing. It is also built for qt4, so this must be
installed on the target system. Avoid qt 4.4.0 (from hardy
backports). The standard 4.3.x is fine (or 4.4.1 and later)
<a href="debian/hardy/recoll_1.11.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb">
recoll_1.11.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb</a>
</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>
<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 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> 6.4 i386:
<a href="freebsd/recoll-1.11.0-FreeBSD-6.4-PRERELEASE.tgz">
recoll-1.11.0-FreeBSD-6.4-PRERELEASE.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.html">errata</a>.
<a href="sunos/recoll-1.11.0-SunOS-5.8.tgz">
recoll-1.11.0-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 tried a couple of
months ago 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 <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>
<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 1.11 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 1.11 message file, handy to work on a new translation.</p>
<h3>Updated 1.11 translations that became available after the
release:</h3>
<p>None for now :(</p>
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<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>
</p>
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