4.2. Installing a prebuilt copy

4.2.1. Installing through a package system

If you are lucky enough to be using a port system or a prebuilt package (RPM or other), just follow the usual procedure, and have a look at the configuration section.

4.2.2. Installing a prebuilt Recoll

The unpackaged binary versions 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). However, this also means that you cannot change the versions which are used.

After extracting the tar file, you can proceed with installation as if you had built the package from source.