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General information

You will probably need to have a look at the installation manual for building and/or installation instructions.

For building from source, you will need a xapian-core installation. You will find source and binary packages on the Xapian download page. Recoll 1.10.2 should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.5).

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.

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).

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 list to decide what you may want to install.

In addition, optional functionality in Recoll (the term explorer tool in phonetic mode) uses the aspell package. The installed version should be at least 0.60 (utf-8 support) for this to run smoothly. This function is far from essential.

If you find problems with this page, the package or its installation, please report them.

The download page for the previous 1.9 version is still here

What do the release numbers mean?

The Recoll releases are numbered X.Y.Z.

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.

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.

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, any change can bring problems, if you are not affected by the corrected bugs (check the changes file), there is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.

Updated filters

New and updated filters are sometimes available 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.

Source

Current version:

1.10.2: recoll-1.10.2.tar.gz See the known bugs and issues and changes.

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. More details. 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).You don't need to do this if you did it for Recoll 1.9

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 changes list.

Older recoll releases: 1.10.1. 1.10.0. 1.9.0. 1.8.2. 1.7.6. 1.6.3. 1.5.11. 1.4.3. 1.3.3. 1.2.3. 1.1.0. 1.0.16.

A separate source file contains a KDE kicker applet to start a Recoll search from the KDE toolbar: recoll_applet-1.10.0.tgz. This is a very slightly modified version of the find_applet.

Packages

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.
Of course you need xapian-core installed to use the source rpms.

Fedora Core FC6 RPM: fc6/recoll-1.10.2-1.i386.rpm. Source: recoll-1.10.2-1.src.rpm

Mandriva 2006 (also works on 2005 and 2007). RPM: recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Suse 10.3 RPM: recoll-1.10.2-0.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.10.2-0.src.rpm

Ubuntu 6.06 dapper / edgy / gutsy / hardy This has a static link on xapian 1.0.5: recoll_1.10.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb debian/dapper. 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.

Debian unstable Recoll is in the package repository, you can install it with the usual apt-get install recoll. Package page

Debian 3.1 Thanks to Mario () for these: i386: recoll_1.8.1-1_i386.deb. amd64 version: recoll_1.8.1-1_amd64.deb.

Binary bundles

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 here.

The installation instructions are there.

FreeBSD 6.3 i386: recoll-1.10.2-FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE.tgz

Solaris 8 sparc. Note to Solaris users: you need to perform the initial indexing pass with "recollindex", not the recoll GUI indexing thread. See errata. recoll-1.10.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz.

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:

Obviously, there are other ways to do it (use CC, install some place else ... ), but I tried this one.

FreeBSD ports

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. xapian port recoll port.

Translations

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 me and earn my gratefulness (and your less multilingual compatriot's)...

You can use the .ts file to alter the translations if you wish (use QT's linguist tool to edit the source file, then lrelease to produce the .qm file.). The .qm file should be copied to /usr/[local/]share/recoll/translations

recoll_xx.ts is a blank Recoll 1.10 message file, handy to work on a new translation.

Updated 1.10 translations that became available after the release:

German. recoll_de.ts recoll_de.qm