# Recoll user manual
Building from source

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### Installation

Either type `make install` or execute `recollinstall `prefix``, in the root of the source tree. This will copy the commands to ``prefix`/bin` and the sample configuration files, scripts and other shared data to ``prefix`/share/recoll`.

If the installation prefix given to recollinstall is different from either the system default or the value which was specified when executing configure (as in `configure --prefix /some/path`), you will have to set the `RECOLL_DATADIR` environment variable to indicate where the shared data is to be found (ie for (ba)sh: `export RECOLL_DATADIR=/some/path/share/recoll`).

You can then proceed to configuration.

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