--- a/src/INSTALL
+++ b/src/INSTALL
@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@
Installing Recoll
- There are currently no binary packages, so you will need to build Recoll
- from source before installing it.
+ Building from source
- Prerequisites
+ Prerequisites
At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core
package (I am currently using xapian version 0.8.5), and the qt runtime
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@
* PDF files: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
* Postscript files: pstotext.
- Building
+ 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
@@ -57,6 +56,19 @@
You may also need to adjust the recoll.pro file inside the qtgui directory
to fix the "-L/usr/local/lib -lxapian -liconv" piece, depending on where
your libs are installed. Then run 'qmake recoll.pro' in there.
+
+ Using binary packages
+
+ The binary versions are just compressed tar files of a build tree, where
+ only the useful parts were kept (executables and sample configuration.
+
+ The executable binary files are built with a static link to libxapian and
+ libiconv, to make installation easier (no dependencies). However, this
+ also means that you can't change the versions of xapian and iconv which
+ are used.
+
+ After having untarred the file, you can proceed with installation as if
+ you had built the package from source.
Installation