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Chapter 4. Installation
Table of Contents
4.1. Building from source
4.2. Installing a prebuilt copy
4.3. Configuration overview
4.1. Building from source
4.1.1. Prerequisites
At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core
package (Recoll currently uses version 0.9.2), and the qt runtime and
development packages (Recoll currently uses version 3.3.3).
You will most probably be able to find a binary package for qt for your
system. You may have to compile Xapian, but this is not difficult (if you
are using FreeBSD, there is a port).
You may also need libiconv. Recoll currently uses version 1.9 (this should
not be critical). On Linux systems, the iconv interface is part of libc
and you should not need to do anything special.
External file types. Recoll uses external applications to index some file
types. You need to install them for the file types that you wish to have
indexed:
* MS Word: antiword.
* PDF: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
* Postscript: pstotext.
* RTF: unrtf
4.1.2. Building
Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005), FreeBSD and
Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much welcome
patches.
Normal procedure:
cd recoll-xxx
configure
make
(practises usual hardship-repelling invocations)
There little autoconfiguration. The configure script will mainly link one
of the system-specific files in the mk directory to mk/sysconf. If your
system is not known yet, it will tell you as much, and you may want to
manually copy and modify one of the existing files (the new file name
should be the output of uname -s).
4.1.3. Installation
Either type make install or execute recollinstall targetdir, in the root
of the source tree. This will copy the commands to $targetdir/bin and the
sample configuration files, scripts and other shared data to
$targetdir/share/recoll.
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