diff --git a/src/recollinstall b/src/recollinstall
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--- a/src/recollinstall
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-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Install recoll files. This has 2 modes, for installing the binaries or
-# the personal configuration files
-
-fatal()
-{
-    echo $*
-    exit 1
-}
-usage()
-{
-    echo 'Usage (common files): recollinstall <dir>, ie: recollinstall /usr/local'
-    fatal 'Usage (personal config): recollinstall'
-}
-
-INSTALL=${INSTALL:=install}
-
-if test $# = 1 ; then
-   # Install commands and example config to target directory
-   PREFIX=$1
-
-   echo "Installing to $PREFIX"
-
-   test -x qtgui/recoll || fatal "qtgui/recoll does not exist." \
-        " You need to build first (type 'make')."
-
-   for d in ${PREFIX} \
-	    ${PREFIX}/bin \
-	    ${PREFIX}/share \
-	    ${PREFIX}/share/recoll \
-	    ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples \
-	    ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/images 
-   do
-     test -d $d || mkdir $d || exit 1
-   done
-
-
-   ${INSTALL} qtgui/recoll index/recollindex recollinstall $PREFIX/bin \
-	      || exit 1
-
-   ${INSTALL} filters/rcl* ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples/ || exit 1
-
-   ${INSTALL} sampleconf/recoll.conf sampleconf/mimeconf sampleconf/mimemap \
-		    ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples/ || exit 1
-
-   ${INSTALL} qtgui/mtpics/*.png ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/images || exit 1
-
-   exit 0
-
-else
-
-  # Install configuration files to home directory
-  PREFIX=${PREFIX:=/usr/local}
-
-  me=`whoami`
-  if test "$me" = root ; then
-    fatal "Cowardly refusing to install personal config in root's" \
-	    "home directory"
-  fi
-  if test ! -d ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples ; then
-     fatal "Global install should be performed first"
-  fi
-
-  if test -d $HOME/.recoll ; then 
-    cat <<EOF
-     
-     $HOME/.recoll already exists, no modification done.
-     You should check for new filters or updated files in 
-     ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples.
-EOF
-     exit 0
-  fi
-
-  mkdir $HOME/.recoll || exit 1
-  cp ${PREFIX}/share/recoll/examples/* $HOME/.recoll
-  chmod a+x $HOME/.recoll/rcl*
-  chmod +w $HOME/.recoll/recoll.conf
-  chmod +w $HOME/.recoll/mimeconf
-
-  echo Copied configuration files and filters to $HOME/.recoll/
-  echo You should now take a look at $HOME/.recoll/recoll.conf
-  exit 0
-fi
diff --git a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
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-# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.10 2005-11-21 16:05:07 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
-
-# Recoll default configuration file. This should be copied to
-# ~/.recoll/recoll.conf 
-
-# Space-separated list of directories to index. Next line indexes $HOME
-topdirs = ~
-
-# Wildcard expressions for names of files and directories that we should
-# ignore:
-skippedNames = *~ #* .* bin CVS  Cache caughtspam  tmp
-
-# Debug messages
-loglevel = 4
-logfilename = stderr
-
-# Languages for which to build stemming databases at the end of
-# indexing. Stemmer names can be found on the xapian site
-indexstemminglanguages = english french
-
-# Use stemming of query terms or not (ie: expand search for floors to
-# floor, flooring, etc... )
-querystemming = 1
-querystemminglanguage = english
-
-# Name of file suffix to mime-type map file. 
-mimemapfile = mimemap
-# Name of mime-type to filter type/name map file. 
-mimeconffile = mimeconf
-
-# Decide if we do show icons in the result list. This looks a bit more
-# beaglish, but I'm not quite sure it's useful. If you wish to have them, 
-# you will have to copy the pngs from the distribution to wherever you want
-# to store them (the associations are decided in mimeconf)
-showicons = 1
-iconsdir = /usr/local/share/recoll/images
-
-# Where to store the database.
-dbdir = ~/.recoll/xapiandb
-
-# Default character set. Values found inside files, ie content tag in html
-# documents, will override this. It can be specified per directory (see
-# below). Used when converting to utf-8 (internal storage format).
-defaultcharset = iso-8859-1
-defaultlanguage = english
-
-# Guessing charsets usually does not work well
-guesscharset = 0
-
-# Should we use the system's 'file -i' command as a final step in file type
-# identification ? This may be useful, but will usually cause the
-# indexation of many bogus 'text' files
-usesystemfilecommand = 1
-
-# You could specify different parameters for a subdirectory like this. 
-#[~/englishdocs/plain]
-#defaultcharset = iso-8859-2
-