Recoll user manual

Building from source

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.