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recoll (personal full text search tool)
-Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.
-It is based on the very strong Xapian backend, for which it
-provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration,
-QT graphical interface.
+Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux. It is based
+on the very strong Xapian backend, for which it provides an easy to use,
+feature-rich, easy administration, QT graphical interface.
-The homepage of recoll is found at http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
-
-recoll depends on some other packages, that are not met by a
-standard Slackware install. All these should be covered by seperate
-build scripts. These dependencies are:
-
-Required:
- xapian-core (http://www.xapian.org/)
-Optional:
- antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/)
- unrtf (http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html)
+This requires xapian-core, with optional dependencies of antiword, unrtf,
+and exiftool (all available at SlackBuilds.org).
NOTE: As of the time of writing, recoll depends on version 0.9.10 of
xapian-core, the newer 1.0.0 release does NOT work with this version
of recoll.
-Else no incompatibilities are known.
After installing the package you should create the file
$HOME/.recoll/recoll.conf and modify it to your needs, especially the