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<h3><a name="mint">Mint Linux</a></h3>
<h3><a name="mint">Linux Mint</a></h3>
<p>The Ubuntu PPA works perfectly for Mint 13 (and probably
other releases too). Just follow the instructions for Ubuntu.</p>

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<h2>News</h2>
<div class="news">
<ul>
<li>2012-10-19: the source for <a href="recoll-1.18.0.tar.gz">
recoll 1.18.0</a> is available, and this is a call to
volunteers to test it. There are binary
packages for Ubuntu and Mint Linux users, and I can build
others. See this
<a href="http://www.freelists.org/post/recoll-user/recoll-1180-prerelease">
message</a> for more information.</li>
<li>2012-10-16: <a href="filters/filters.html">new filter for
EPUB documents</a>.</li>
<li>2012-10-16: recoll 1.18 will soon be out. It will have
optional character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct
access to hit page when opening PDF files, complex search
history, and a host of other smaller improvements. You can

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<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the index
in most cases. This will be best done by destroying the
index directory (<tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces
significant index formats changes to support optional
character case and diacritics sensitivity, and it will be
advisable to reset the index in most cases. This will be best
done by destroying the index directory (<tt>rm -rf
~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p>
<p><em>If</em> the 1.18 index is not configured for case and
diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with 1.17
indexes though.</p>
<p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. For 1.18, it can be
turned on only by editing recoll.conf by hand (see the
manual). If you do so, you must reset the index.</p>
<p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default for this
release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing
recoll.conf (see the manual). If you do so, you must reset the
index.</p>
<p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.16
and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
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There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
the locally configured application even when <em>Use
Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This allows making
use of new function (direct access to page), which could not
use of new functions (direct access to page), which could not
be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>. The
default list contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, which should be
opened with the Evince viewer for the page access functions to
opened with the <em>evince</em> (or <em>atril</em> for
Mint/MATE users) viewer for the page access functions to
work. If you want to keep the previous behaviour (losing the
page number functionality), you need to empty the list after
page number functionality), you need to prune the list after
installation . This can be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui
Configuration</em> menu.</p>