From e2c4e732a7deae58b446bfe60145cc409aaab5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dockes Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:51:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- website/BUGS.txt | 51 +++- website/CHANGES.html | 613 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ website/CHANGES.txt | 426 ----------------------------- website/download.html | 208 +++++++------- website/index.html.en | 9 +- website/index.html.fr | 9 +- 6 files changed, 765 insertions(+), 551 deletions(-) create mode 100644 website/CHANGES.html delete mode 100644 website/CHANGES.txt diff --git a/website/BUGS.txt b/website/BUGS.txt index 3a55c7c9..bee4f5e4 100644 --- a/website/BUGS.txt +++ b/website/BUGS.txt @@ -4,16 +4,30 @@ Bugs that are listed in an older version section are supposedly fixed in later versions. Bugs listed in the topmost section may also exist in older versions. -Latest (recoll 1.10.2 + xapian 1.0.x): +Latest (recoll 1.10.6 + xapian 1.0.x): + +- When Recoll is built with qt 4.4.0, the icons in the result list are all + displayed at the top of the page and garbled. This appears to be a qt + bug, fixed in 4.4.1. Use either qt 4.3.x or 4.4.1 + +- If the locale is not utf-8, non-ascii command line arguments to recoll + and recollq are not converted to utf-8, which may prevent, for example, + the kde applet from working. The workaround is to apply the following + one-line fix to qtgui/main.cpp, recompile and install recoll: +386c386 +< sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromUtf8(qstring.c_str())); +--- +> sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromLocal8Bit(qstring.c_str())); -- In a preview window, when walking the search term hits with the - Previous/Next buttons, 'Previous' actually acts as 'Next' (it does work - normally for the local search). - If the user-chosen result list entry format results in several paragraphs (in the qt textedit sense), right clicks will only work inside the first one for each entry. +- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the actual file is + compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try to start the external viewer + on the compressed file, which will not work in most cases. + - NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what recoll did with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on terms inside NEAR clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized entry of course). There is @@ -28,7 +42,7 @@ Latest (recoll 1.10.2 + xapian 1.0.x): "api/" directory: http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.patch or fetch the already patched source: - http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapian-core-1.0.5-recollNEARpatch.tar.gz + http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapian-core-1.0.7-recollNEARpatch.tar.gz then recompile, and install. @@ -41,10 +55,6 @@ Latest (recoll 1.10.2 + xapian 1.0.x): I don't know the exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and go away with Helvetica or Arial). -- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the actual file is - compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try to start the external viewer - on the compressed file, which will not work in most cases. - - Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE 3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a problem with the window stacking order. Opening the "browse" file selection dialog from the advanced search dialog will stack the latter @@ -59,11 +69,26 @@ Latest (recoll 1.10.2 + xapian 1.0.x): yet inexistant db). 1.10.1 + xapian 1.0.x +- A relatively simple error case can cause the indexer to stop processing + an mbox file (forgetting all subsequent messages). More specifically, + this happens when encountering more than than a few dozen errors while + handling attachments. This is relatively common: for exemple if an + external helper application is missing and multiple attachments of the + affected type are found (ie: multiple images and no + exiftool). Workaround: install the helper application. +- The decoding of base-64 data in emails fails in a relatively uncommon + but sometimes encountered case. +- In a preview window, when walking the search term hits with the + Previous/Next buttons, 'Previous' actually acts as 'Next' (it does work + normally for the local search). +- Problems in detecting message separators inside Thunderbird mailboxes + (quite probably mainly for messages imported from outlook?). Can lead to + unindexed messages, and even apparently indexer crashes in some cases. +- File names indexed as terms can sometimes overflow the maximum term + size, halting the indexing. +- For Phrase/Near searches, only the first term group is highlighted in + preview. -- The decoding of base-64 data in emails fails in a relatively uncommon but - sometimes encountered case. -- The "Previous" button in the preview window would actually go forward - when walking the search terms 1.10.0 diff --git a/website/CHANGES.html b/website/CHANGES.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4730d34 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/CHANGES.html @@ -0,0 +1,613 @@ + + + + Recoll changes + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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Recoll journal of user-visible changes

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1.11.0

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Recoll release 1.11 has relatively extensive changes that have + necessitated a modification of the index format. Hence installing this + release implies a full re-indexing, which is enforced by the + software.

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1.10.6

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1.10.5

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1.10.2

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1.10.1

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1.10.0

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1.8.2 2007-05-19

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1.8.1 2007-02-20

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1.7.6 2007-01-30

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1.7.5 2007-01-15

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1.7.3 2007-01-09

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1.6.3

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1.6.2

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1.6.1

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1.5.9

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1.5.8

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1.5.6

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1.5.1

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1.5.0 2006-09-20

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1.4.3 2006-05-07

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1.3.3 2006-04-04

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1.2.3 2006-03-03

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1.2.2 2006-02-02

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1.2.0 2006-02-01

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1.1.0 2006-01-12

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1.0.16 2006-01-05

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+ + diff --git a/website/CHANGES.txt b/website/CHANGES.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 032c2d88..00000000 --- a/website/CHANGES.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,426 +0,0 @@ -CHANGES - -1.10.2 - -- Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues. - -- Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64 - decoding errors. - -- Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when - walking the search terms. - -- Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and - preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...) - -- Added svg filter - -1.10.1 - -- Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some - error, at least the file name is indexed. - -- Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field - specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor). - -- Fix filename search to split patterns on white space, so that - a "*.jpg *.jpeg" search does what's expected. Means you now need to use - double-quotes if there is actual embedded white space. - -- Jump directly to the external editor choice dialog instead of opening - preferences when an external viewer is not found. - -- Allow stopping indexing through menu action (only works with qt4 for now). - -- Create an "indexedmimetypes" configuration variable to allow explicitely - restricting the file types which do get indexed. - -1.10.0 - -- Added a GUI dialog to configure the indexing parameters. - -- Added better support for indexing CJK text (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). - Please note that: - - You will need a full reindex to take good advantage of this. (You - *don't* need to reindex if you don't need to search CJK, even if there - is some in your index). - - When entering CJK search terms, words (single or multiple characters) - should be separated with white space. - - The specific CJK processing can be turned off by setting the nocjk - variable to true in the configuration file (this may make sense if you - have a mixed cjk/other document base and don't want to index the cjk - part, as it will save some disk space and a minuscule amount of cpu). - -- Changed the way Recoll handles searches including composite words (like - an email address). The new approach looks saner, but could have - side-effects, please report any problems in this area. - -- The query language got a new "dir:" specifier to filter results on location. - -- New rclimg perl filter for better indexing of picture tags, thanks to - Cedric Scott. This depends on Exiftool. -- New rcltex filter. - -- Changed and improved how the preview window local search finds the - query terms, this does not involve weird characters any more. The - display is cleaner and cut and paste works better. - -- Fixed the fact that a newline-separated word list in simple search would - wrongly trigger a phrase search. - -- Fixed the way we input text to the preview textedit (the old way would - sometimes confuse the window into displaying tags instead of acting on - them). - -- Fixed transcoding to utf-8 for text/plain email attachments - -- Improved mbox From_ line detection - -- Added indexedmimetypes variables to allow restricting the list of indexed - mime types. - -- KDE kicker applet: start a recoll search from the panel and get a - Recoll window. This is a clone from the find_applet, originally meant to - start a Tracker search. Not so useful presently because it will start a - new Recoll instance for every search. Not part of the main source (the - configure script is a whopping 1MB...), linked from the download page. -- Added recoll command line options to define a query and execute it - immediately when the program starts. This is used in practice from the - applet and could be used from other programs. There is a also a new - option to not start the GUI and print the results to stdout. - -1.9.0 -- Incompatible change: the icon image reference is now part of the result - list paragraph format string: - - If you had a standard config, you need do nothing. - - If you had a custom format string, you need to add - at its beginning to get the same result as - before. - - If you had unchecked the "show icons" option, you need to remove the - above string from the paragraph format to make the icons go away. - Changes to the format string are performed in the - "Preferences->Query Configuration->User Interface" dialog tab. - -- New filters: wordperfect, abiword and kword, rcljpeg, rclflac, rclogg - (contributed filters). The jpeg and audio filters should be extended to - make use of the new field indexing/search capability (hint :) ) - -- When searching for an empty string inside the preview window, position - the window to the next occurrence of a primary search term. - -- Added ext: and mime: selectors to the query language. - -- Added an adjustable flush threshold during indexing: should help control - memory usage. See the idxflushmb configuration variable. - -- Added a check for file system free space. Indexing will stop if the - threshold is reached. See the maxfsoccuppc configuration parameter. - -- Added 'followLinks' configuration option to have the indexer follow - symbolic links while walking the tree (the default is false). - -- Allow symbolic links as 'topdirs' members. These are always followed. - -- Add preference option to remember sort tool state between program - invocations (it is reset to inactive by default) - -- Added File menu entry to erase document history. - -- Bound the space and backspace keys to PgUp/PgDown in preview. - -- (Hopefully) Improved abstract (keyword in context) generation - -- Added support for arbitrary fields. Filters can now produce any number of - fields which will be selectively searchable through the query - language. This could be useful, for exemple, for the mp3 and jpeg filters - (but it is not currently used). - -- Improved qt4 build: no more need for --enable-qt4. Note: the qt4 build - still needs the qt3 support library. - -- Changed the icon to an ugly one. The previous one was nicer but looked - too much like Xapian's. - -- Added some kind of support for a stopword list. - -- Have email attachments inherit date and author from their parent message - (instead of mail folder). - -- Fix bus error on rclmon exit - -- Better handling of aspell errors inside rclmon - -- Fixed a number of qt4 glitches: selection and keyboard shortcuts. - -- New query configuration parameter to set the maximum text size beyond - which text won't be hilighted before preview (takes too much time). This - was a fixed value in 1.8. - -1.8.2 2007-05-19 -- Fixed method name for compatibility with xapian 1.0.0 -- Add .beagle to default list of skipped names (avoids indexing beagle - document cache...) -- Fix configure.ac to use $libdir instead of /usr/lib -- Fix recollinstall to properly copy translations and pictures for qt4 - -1.8.1 2007-02-20 -- Add a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title, - etc.) -- Add wildcard handling everywhere. *, ?, [] can be used in any - search. Warning: using a wild card at the left of a term can make - for a very slow search. -- Allow skipping specific paths during indexing (in addition to file name - patterns) -- Improved external index choice dialog, accessible from the top-level menu. -- Many small bugs fixed: stemming language choice ignored in term explorer, - qt4 preview window reentrancy crashes, issues with saving the default - advanced search file, type filter, display more clearly missing helper - errors, etc. -- Option to use the desktop defaults (with xdg-open) to choose the native - viewer for files (instead of recoll's mimeview). - -1.7.6 2007-01-30 - - Fixes an issue with the openoffice filter on debian systems. - - Adds Scribus and Lyx filters. - -1.7.5 2007-01-15 - - Fixes two email indexing bugs in 1.7.3, which would bail out from an - mbox folder on the first attachment filtering error, and would decline - to handle multipart/signed bodies. You may need to run a full indexing - pass (recollindex -z), to force reindexing of old folders. - -1.7.3 2007-01-09 - - Email attachments are now indexed. - - Right-click menu option to access the parent document of an embedded - result (ie from mail attachment to parent message), or the parent folder - of a given file (which is opened with the application configured for - directories) - - The sort tool has been improved: no need to restart the query after sort - criteria change. - - Support for real-time indexing with inotify is now enabled by default - when appropriate. - - Recoll now warns when the configured native viewer can not be found and - starts an interface for chosing another one. - - Categories (text, presentation, spreadsheets, etc.) can be used instead - of raw mime types when filtering on file types in advanced search. - - The port to qt4 is functional and can be enabled with configure --enable-qt4 - - 'autophrase' option improved and may now actually be useful. - - Improved highlighting (again...) - - Display term frequencies in term explorer. - - Recollindex -e to remove data from index for listed files. - - Directory names now indexed. Directories can be 'edited' with the - configured application (rox by default) - -1.6.3 - - Fixed problem with bad detection of mbox message boundaries. - Upgrading can change the message numbering in some cases, and you should - perform a full index update (recollindex -z) after installing - the new version. - - Fixed problem with execution of external viewer for files with - single-quotes in the name. -1.6.2 - - Minor solaris compilation glitches only. -1.6.1 - - Term explorer: a multimode wildcard-regexp-spell/phonetic tool to search - the index for terms. This uses aspell for the orthographic/phonetic part. - - A more dynamic advanced search window. You now have a choice of the top - level conjunction (OR/AND) and of any number of clauses, including NEAR - and PHRASE clauses with an adjustable proximity parameter. - - User-settable format for the result-list entries, which use an HTML - string with %xx printf-like replacements (accessible from the user - preferences). - - Real time monitoring/indexing support. This is not configured by - default, and must be specified at build time (configure --help). - - Improved phrase/group highlighting in abstracts and preview - - Better sample selection for synthetic abstracts. - - Improved performance of the text splitter, good for indexing and previewing. - - Shift+click link to open new preview window instead of tab in existing - window. - - The key sequence for term completion in the simple search entry was - changed from CTRL+TAB to "Escape Space" to avoid interaction with window - managers. - - Improved recall for phrases with composite words like email addresses. - - -Updating from 1.2 to 1.3 or 1.4 or 1.5: ---------------------------------------- -From version 1.3 up, there is a new feature to search specifically for file -names (with wildcard processing). If you want to take full advantage of -this, you should perform a full reindex after installing the new version -(ie: use recollindex -z, or delete ~/.recoll/xapiandb). -Also, we now use the central copies of configuration files for default -values, and the user ones only for overrides. Your old configuration files -will still work, but, you may want to remove them if they are unmodified, -or keep only the modified parameters. - -1.5.9 -- Fix bad timezone conversion in email dates. Display timezone in result - list dates. - -1.5.8 -- Fix stored and displayed dates which used to come from the file's ctime, - now use mtime (which was already used for deciding re-indexing). -- Fix problem with some weird MIME messages (with null boundaries) which - crashed the indexer. - -1.5.[23456] -- Small fixes dealing with the build process or compiler issues. - 1.5.6 has updated ukrainian and russian messages. - Otherwise no functional changes, and no need to upgrade from 1.5.1 - -1.5.1 -- Fix serious bug with non ascii strings in simple search history -- Improve synthetic abstracts: remove size limitations, handle overlapping - extracts, avoid printing several terms from the same position. - -1.5.0 2006-09-20 - -- Added support for powerpoint and excel files, with the catdoc package. -- Allow viewing consecutive documents from the result list inside a single - preview window using the shift-arrow-up and shift-arrow-down keys. -- Colorize search terms in abstracts in the result list. -- A number of elements are now remembered between program invocations: - sort criteria, list of ignored file types (always starts inactive), - subtree restriction, better handling of the recent searches listbox, the - buildAbstract and replaceAbstract settings are not forgotten any more. -- New option to automatically add a phrase to simple searches. -- Possibility to adjust the length and context width for synthetic abstracts. -- Handle weird html better. -- When indexing mail messages, walk the full mime tree instead of staying - at the top level, index all text parts and attachement file names. -- Add -c option to recoll and recollindex to specify the - configuration directory on the command line -- Better synchronization between the active preview and the highlighted - paragraph inside the list -- Improved recall for some special cases of stemming. -- Much better handling of email dates, allowing better email sorting by - date (previously the message date was quite often the date when the file - was indexed). -- Store the external database lists in the configuration directory, not the - qt preferences. -- Ensure dialogs are sized according to font size - - -1.4.3 2006-05-07 - - Multiple search databases. - - Optionally auto-search when a word is entered in the simple search - field. - - Show possible term completions in simple search by typing CTRL+TAB - - Add 'more like this' option to result list right-click menu, to look for - documents related to the current result. - - Double-click in preview or result list adds the selected word to the - simple search text field. - - The simple search text entry field is now a combobox and remembers - previous searches. - - Additional OR field in complex search. - - Improved indexing cancellability (interrupting recollindex or closing - recoll with an indexing thread active), and status reporting. - - Fixed filters to handle file paths with embedded spaces. - - Misc small bug and memory leaks fixes. - - More compact result list. - - Set mode 0700 on .recoll directory by default - -1.3.3 2006-04-04 - - Implement specific search on file names with wildcard - support. Indexation can optionally process all file names or only those - with mime types supported for normal indexation. UPDATING: you need a - full re-indexation to take advantage of this. - - Use links and a right-click popup menu to replace confusing use of - mouse clicks and double-clicks inside the result list. - - The 'example' configuration files are now used as default, and are not - copied any more to the user directory during installation. Overrides can - be set in the personal files for any value that the user wishes to - modify, with unchanged formats and file names (so that the files from - previous versions remain valid, but you may wish to trim them of values - that duplicate the central ones). - - Use NLS information (LC_CTYPE, LANG) do determine default charset when - possible. - - Mp3 file indexing, either filenames only or also id3 tags if id3info is - available. c/c++ ext edit. Use gnuclient instead of xemacs for text files. - - Russian and Ukrainian translations and many improvement ideas thanks to - Michael Shigorin. - -1.2.3 2006-03-03 - - Added support for dvi (with dvips), and dvu (with DjVuLibre). - - Ensure that configure and make use the same qt version. - - Fix sorted sequence title display. - - Discriminate fatal errors and missing docs while loading a doc list. - - Improved and cleaned up way to position a preview on the first search term. -1.2.2 2006-02-02 - - Fix minor compilation glitches (FreeBSD 4, QT 3.1, xapian-config problem) -1.2.0 2006-02-01 - - Improved preview loading: don't highlight very big documents (over 1Mb), - allow cancellation while loading. - - Abstracts generated in the result list by looking at search term - contexts. This can slow down result list display for big documents, and - can be turned off in the preferences menu. - - Wrap query detail line displayed when clicking on result list header. - - Text splitting cleanup with less spurious terms should result in - slightly smaller databases. - - Sligthly improved presentation in preview, esp. line breaks. - - Color icons... - - Let the user select the html browser used for help display. - - autoconf/Makefile change: allow building UI from inside the qtgui - directory. - - autoconf/Makefile: improved search and diagnostics for qt/qmake. - - Internal code cleanup for maintainability: text splitting, user - interface. - - Added prototype kio_slave to show result inside Konqueror, doesn't seem - particularly useful. -1.1.0 2006-01-12 - - A much better user manual, which can be browsed from the help menu. - - man pages for recoll, recollindex, recoll.conf - - User/query interface configuration dialog. - - Click on result list header will display the exact boolean search which - was used. - - recollindex can be used to create stem expansion databases independantly - of a full indexing pass. - - Misc user interface improvements, like an 'all terms' checkbox for - simple search. - - Fixed case-insensitivity issues. Probably needs more testing. -1.0.16 2006-01-05 - - Minor installation tweaks for rpm compatibility -1.0.15 - - Fix problems with prefix != /usr/local - - Remove '.*' from the default list of ignored file/dir names: this - prevented mozilla/thunderbird mail indexing. - - Fix some 64 bits issues -1.0.14 - - Small changes for FreeBSD 4 compilation. -1.0.13 - - Install of recollinstall program not done or needed any more. -1.0.12 - - Fixed nasty html parsing bug introduced in 1.0.9 Html parsing failed - whenever the document charset name differed from the default only in - character case or punctuation. -1.0.11 - - Create personal configuration on first start. - - Use qt toolbars. - - Also index terms in file paths. - - Tool for sorting on dates or mime types. - - Fixed pdf filter which was broken by more recent xpdf - - Filters now installed/executed from /usr/local - -1.0.10 - - Added tool to manage the history of consulted documents. - - Try harder to convert email messages with wrongly declared charsets. - - Add option to reset the database before indexing (easier than rm -rf). - - Small gui improvements. - - Install partial french translation as a tease for future translaters... - -1.0.8->1.0.9 - - Fixed 2 really ennoying bugs in 1.0.8: wouldn't preview 2nd document - from same file + spurious db close when filter could not be executed. - -1.0.5 -> 1.0.8 - - Add support for rtf and gaim logs - - Optionally show icons to indicate mime types in result list - - Better (but imperfect) feedback during the preview loading for big files - - Remember main window geometry when closing - - Fix stem expansion in advanced search - - Some autoconf - - Option to use the system's 'file' command as a final step of - identification for suffix-less or unknown files. - - Typo had removed support for .Z compression - - Use more appropriate conjonction operators when computing the advanced - search query (OP_AND_MAYBE, OP_FILTER instead of OP_AND) diff --git a/website/download.html b/website/download.html index dec55049..9c37351a 100644 --- a/website/download.html +++ b/website/download.html @@ -36,9 +36,10 @@

- - + + + @@ -47,104 +48,93 @@
Rpm and ubuntu/debian packagesOther binary packages SourceRpm/deb packagesKnown bugsOther binary packages Bsd port Filters Translations

-

General information

+

General information

-

You will probably need to have a look at the - installation manual for - building and/or installation instructions.

+

Instructions: + Installation / building manual.

-

For building from source, you will need a xapian-core - installation. You will find source and binary packages on the - Xapian download - page. Recoll 1.10.2 should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x - Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.5).

+

All binary packages on this page need a Qt 3.3 runtime + environment. They are statically linked with + Xapian, which you don't need to install.

-

You need Qt 3.3 (or qt 4) in all cases. Recoll will - automatically be configured to build with qt4 if the version - of qmake found in $QTDIR/bin:$PATH is for qt4.

+

Optional packages used by document filters: + + take a look at the list and decide what you need to + install.

-

QT 4.4 note (2008-05-23): there seems to be a few problems in - Qt 4.4.0 (maybe in the qt3 compatibility layer), resulting in - problems in displaying the Recoll result list. I suggest - avoiding qt 4.4 with Recoll for now (qt 4.3 works fine).

- -

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.

+

The Recoll term explorer tool in phonetic mode (marginally + useful and optional) uses the aspell package, version + 0.60 (utf-8 support) or newer.

If you find problems with this page, the package or its installation, please report them.

-

The download page for the previous 1.9 version is still - here

+

Recoll users updating from 1.8 or older, + or who have skipped this step for 1.9 need to delete their old index. + More details. + You don't need to do this if you did it for Recoll 1.9

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, +

The Recoll releases are numbered X.Y.Z. The X + would only change for really major modifications like a big + change in the index format, and possibly won't ever reach + 2.

+

Y is for functional modifications. These may bring bugs, so + if you don't need the new features, you may want to wait a little, and especially skip the first release (X.Y.0), at least for a few weeks.

-

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 +

Z changes for bug fixes only, and 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 + href="CHANGES.html">changes file), there is probably no necessity to upgrade anyway.

Updated filters

New and updated filters are sometimes available before the next - Recoll release. There are no updated filters for Recoll - 1.10.2, but you may find some if you are running an older - release.

- + Recoll release. The most notable current set is for the Open + XML office document formats, not included for Recoll releases older + than 1.10.5.

Source

-

Current version: +

Current version: + 1.10.6: recoll-1.10.6.tar.gz + See the known bugs and issues and + changes.

-

1.10.2: recoll-1.10.2.tar.gz - See the known bugs and issues and - changes.

+

In order to build Recoll from source, you will need a + xapian-core installation. You will find + source and binary packages on the + Xapian download + page. Recoll should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x + Xapian version. 1.0.x is preferred.

-

Recoll 1.10 will work with Xapian versions 0.9.x or 1.0.x but - 1.0 is preferred. In order to take advantage of the new index - format in Xapian 1.0, Recoll users updating from 1.8 or older, - or who have skipped this step for 1.9 need to delete their old index. - More details. - This is not mandatory, and the old index format will continue - working just as before (but it is slower, and has a few bugs - fixed in 1.0).You don't need to do this if you did it - for Recoll 1.9

+

You can build with Qt 3.3 or Qt 4. Recoll will + automatically be configured to build with Qt 4 if the version + of qmake found in $QTDIR/bin:$PATH is for Qt 4 (or if $QMAKE + is set to such a version).

-

If updating from 1.8 or older, and you had turned off the - mime type icons inside the result lists in your current Recoll - version, you need to do a small manual adjustment in 1.9/1.10 - to achieve the same effect. See the first entry in - the changes list.

+

There seems to be a few problems in Qt 4.4.0 (2008-08-23), + resulting in problems in displaying the Recoll result list. I + suggest avoiding this release. Qt 4.3.x and + 4.4.1 work fine.

+ +

Recoll 1.11.0 is out. This version has relatively + extensive changes + ( pic): , and needs a full + indexation after installation. I hope that some brave souls + will be willing to help with shaking the last initial + bugs: + recoll-1.11.0.tar.gz.

Older recoll releases: - 1.10.1. + 1.10.5. 1.10.0. 1.9.0. 1.8.2. @@ -168,7 +158,7 @@

Packages

The executables inside the binary rpms have a static link to - xapian 1.0.4/5, there is no real dependency except Qt 3.3. + xapian 1.0.[4-8], there is no real dependency except Qt 3.3. The Fedora and Mandriva packages unfortunately think that they depend on exiftool (which is needed by the little used jpeg info filter), due to excessive rpmbuild @@ -179,83 +169,77 @@

Fedora Core FC6 RPM: - - fc6/recoll-1.10.2-1.i386.rpm. + + fc6/recoll-1.10.6-1.i386.rpm. Source: - - recoll-1.10.2-1.src.rpm + + recoll-1.10.6-1.src.rpm + This package also installs and runs on Fedora 9.

Mandriva 2006 (also works on 2005 and 2007). RPM: - - recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm. + + recoll-1.10.6-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm. Source: - - recoll-1.10.2-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm + + recoll-1.10.6-0.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Suse 10.3 RPM: - - recoll-1.10.2-0.i586.rpm. + + recoll-1.10.6-0.i586.rpm. Source: - - recoll-1.10.2-0.src.rpm + + recoll-1.10.6-0.src.rpm

Ubuntu 6.06 dapper / edgy / gutsy / hardy - This has a static link on xapian 1.0.5: - - recoll_1.10.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb + + recoll_1.10.6-0ubuntu1_i386.deb debian/dapper. This package was built on "dapper" and appears to work correctly on later - Ubuntu releases, so I skipped building specific packages for - them this time. Please contact me if this is a - problem.

+ Ubuntu releases. This package is not configured for real-time + indexing. Here is a package for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy which + is: + + recoll_1.10.6-0ubuntu1_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 1.0.5 (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 + 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 6.3 i386: - - recoll-1.10.2-FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE.tgz + + recoll-1.10.6-FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE.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-1.10.2-SunOS-5.8.tgz. + + recoll-1.10.6-SunOS-5.8.tgz.

Recoll also builds and runs on Solaris 10, but, given the - situation of open source packages for Solaris (very old qt on + situation of open source packages for Solaris (very old Qt on the Companion CD, inconsistent versions of the compiler and - non-threaded version of qt on sunfreeware), I've come to the + non-threaded version of Qt on sunfreeware), I've come to the temporary conclusion that you are better off building than trying to install packages. The approach I recently tried and which worked was to: @@ -265,12 +249,12 @@ /usr/sfw should be ok too here.

  • Compile xapian-core and install it (with prefix /usr/local).
    • -
  • Configure and install qt. The following config worked for me, - with qt 3.3.8: +
  • Configure and install Qt. The following config worked for me, + with Qt 3.3.8: 
     ./configure -platform solaris-g++ -prefix /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-3.3.8/ -thread
    - Then make. Weirdly, I had to add the qt build lib/ + Then make. Weirdly, I had to add the Qt build lib/ directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at some point during the build).
    • @@ -310,7 +294,7 @@ compatriot's)...

    You can use the .ts file to alter the translations if you - wish (use QT's linguist tool to edit the source file, + wish (use Qt's linguist tool to edit the source file, then lrelease to produce the .qm file.). The .qm file should be copied to /usr/[local/]share/recoll/translations @@ -326,6 +310,14 @@ recoll_de.ts recoll_de.qm

    +

    Ukrainian. + recoll_uk.ts + recoll_uk.qm +

    +

    Russian. + recoll_ru.ts + recoll_ru.qm +