Recoll downloads

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

You need qt 3.3 (or qt 4) in all cases

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.

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

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).

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.

Source

Current version:

1.7.5: recoll-1.7.5.tar.gz This version fixes a nasty mail indexing bug in 1.7.3 (sorry about the back-to-back releases). See the known bugs and issues and changes.

Older recoll releases: 1.7.3 1.6.3 1.6.1 1.5.11. 1.5.6. 1.4.3. 1.3.3. 1.2.3. 1.1.0. 1.0.16.

RPMS

The executables inside the binary rpms have a static link to xapian, there is no dependency except Qt 3.3. Of course you need xapian-core installed to use the source rpm.

Fedora Core 5 RPM: recoll-1.7.5-1.i386.rpm. Source: recoll-1.7.5-1.src.rpm

Mandriva 2006 (also works on 2005 and 2007) RPM: recoll-1.7.5-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.7.5-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Suse 10.1 RPM: recoll-1.7.5-0.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.7.5-0.src.rpm

Ubuntu 6.10 edgy binary package: recoll_1.7.5-1_i386.deb. Source package directory: debian/edgy

Binary bundles

These are just prebuilt trees (without the source files). The executables were built with xapian 0.9.9 (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 5.5 i386: recoll-1.7.3-FreeBSD-5.5-RELEASE.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-1.7.3-SunOS-5.8.tgz. Source: recoll-1.7.3.tar.gz

FreeBSD ports

There are ports for both xapian-core and recoll in the standard tree, you may just need to update your ports (cvsup), or you can get the ports from the FreeBSD site. The ports are not yet updated for recoll 1.7 or the xapian NEAR problem though. xapian port recoll port.

Local copies of ports for recoll-1.6 and xapian-0.9.9 (without the NEAR patch).