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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">



<html>

  <head>

    <title>RECOLL: a personal text search system for

    Unix/Linux</title>

    <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">

    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">

    <meta name="Description" content=

    "recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">

    <meta name="Keywords" content=

    "full text search,fulltext,desktop search,unix,linux,solaris,open source,free">

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    <div class="content">

      <h1>Notes about building/using specific external helper

        applications</h1> 



      <h2><a name="midi">The Python midi module</a></h2>

      <p>The normal procedure for building a Python module

        applies:</p>

      <pre><tt>

          tar xvzf midi-0.2.1.tar.gz

          cd midi-0.2.1

          python setup.py build

          sudo python setup.py install

      </tt></pre>



      <p>However, the midi module includes an alsa driver interface

        which needs Swig to build and probably does not build at all

        on recent Linux versions (the last version for the package

        dates from 2006). Recoll does not need midi sequencer hardware

        :), so if you don't need for other purposes, you can disable

        the Alsa interface by editing setup.py and changing the 

        platform name at line 37 (the Alsa thing is only tried on

        Linux):</p>





      <pre><tt>

          37c37

          &lt; if platform.startswith('linux'):

          ---

          > if platform.startswith('NONE'):

      </tt></pre>



      <p>The package should then build and install just fine.</p>



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