Chapter 7. Installation

Table of Contents
7.1. Installing a prebuilt copy
7.2. Supporting packages
7.3. Building from source
7.4. Configuration overview
7.5. The KDE Kicker Recoll applet

7.1. Installing a prebuilt copy

Recoll binary packages from the Recoll web site are always linked statically to the Xapian libraries, and have no other dependencies. You will only have to check or install supporting applications for the file types that you want to index beyond text, HTML and mail files, and maybe have a look at the configuration section (but this may not be necessary for a quick test with default parameters).

7.1.1. Installing through a package system

If you use a BSD-type port system or a prebuilt package (RPM or other), just follow the usual procedure for your system.

7.1.2. Installing a prebuilt Recoll

The unpackaged binary versions on the Recoll web site are just compressed tar files of a build tree, where only the useful parts were kept (executables and sample configuration).

The executable binary files are built with a static link to libxapian and libiconv, to make installation easier (no dependencies).

After extracting the tar file, you can proceed with installation as if you had built the package from source (that is, just type make install). The binary trees are built for installation to /usr/local.