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+  <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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+      <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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