# Recoll download
recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine
Author: Jean-Francois Dockes
Keywords: full text search, desktop search, unix, linux

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# Recoll downloads

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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 1.8.2 should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.1).

You need Qt 3.3 (or qt 4) in all cases (configure Recoll with configure --enable-qt4 to build with qt4, this needs the qt3 support library to be present).

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 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.

## Updated filters

New and updated filters are sometimes available before the next Recoll release

## Source

Current version:

1.8.2: recoll-1.8.2.tar.gz See the known bugs and issues and changes. 1.8.2 was released purely for fixing a small issue of compatibility with xapian 1.0.0 and small config/install glitches. There is no functional reason to upgrade from 1.8.1, (or update packages).

Recoll 1.8.2 is the first release that will let you take advantage of the new Xapian 1.0, the main user-visible change of which is the new default index format. In order to take advantage of the new format (which is not mandatory) Recoll users updating from an older release need to delete their old index. More details.

Older recoll releases: 1.8.1 1.7.6 1.7.5 1.6.3 1.5.11. 1.4.3. 1.3.3. 1.2.3. 1.1.0. 1.0.16.

## Packages

The executables inside the binary rpms have a static link to xapian 0.9.x, there is no dependency except Qt 3.3. Of course you need xapian-core installed to use the source rpm.

Fedora Core FC6 RPM: fc6/recoll-1.8.1-1.i386.rpm. FC5: fc5/recoll-1.8.1-1.i386.rpm. Source: recoll-1.8.1-1.src.rpm

Mandriva 2006 (also works on 2005 and 2007) RPM: recoll-1.8.1-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.8.1-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Suse 10.1 RPM: recoll-1.8.1-0.i586.rpm. Source: recoll-1.8.1-0.src.rpm

Ubuntu 6.10 edgy binary package (also works fine on Ubuntu 7.04 feisty): recoll_1.8.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb. Source package directory: debian/edgy

Ubuntu 6.06 dapper (the feisty version does not work on dapper). This has a static link on xapian 0.9.10: recoll_1.8.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

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 0.9.10 (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-1.8.1-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-1.8.1-SunOS-5.8.tgz.

## 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.

Local copies of ports for recoll-1.8 and xapian-0.9.10 (without the NEAR patch).

## Translations

Some of the translations for 1.8 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)...

Update tranlations that became available (thanks to Mario and Olaf!) after the release follow. The <literal>.qm</literal> file should be copied to /usr/[local/]share/recoll/translations.

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.).

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

Italian. recoll_it.ts recoll_it.qm

German. recoll_de.ts recoll_de.qm