{"id":2238,"date":"2013-11-14T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:09:49","slug":"install-recoll-1-19-9-ppa-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/install-recoll-1-19-9-ppa-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Recoll 1.19 Full Text Search via PPA in Ubuntu Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/full-text-search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/full-text-search.jpg\" alt=\"Recoll full text search \" width=\"200\" height=\"217\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Recoll<\/b> is a full text search tool for Linux Desktops. It is based on the very strong <b>Xapian<\/b> search engine library, for which it provides a powerful text extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical interface.<\/p>\n<p><b>Recoll<\/b> finds keywords inside documents as well as file names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can search any document format.<\/li>\n<li>It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.<\/li>\n<li>One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.<\/li>\n<li>The software is free, open source, and licensed under the GPL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This tutorial shows how to install the <b>latest Recoll<\/b> (so far it&#8217;s 1.19.9) via PPA in <i>Ubuntu 13.10<\/i>, <i>Ubuntu 13.04<\/i>, <i>Ubuntu 12.10<\/i>, <i>Ubuntu 12.04<\/i>, <i>Ubuntu 10.04<\/i> and <i>Linux Mint<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2239\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/recoll-ubuntu1310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2239\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/recoll-ubuntu1310.jpg\" alt=\"Recoll 1.19.8 in Ubuntu 13.10 Unity\" width=\"520\" height=\"312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/recoll-ubuntu1310.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/recoll-ubuntu1310-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recoll 1.19.8 in Ubuntu 13.10 Unity<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>To get started<\/b>, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste and run command below to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:recoll-backports\/recoll-1.15-on<\/pre>\n<p>After that, we can search for and install <code>recoll<\/code> from Ubuntu Software Center after checking for updates. Or, run commands instead:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install recoll<\/pre>\n<p>You can install <code>kio-recoll<\/code>, a Recoll slave for KDE 4 or <code>recoll-lens<\/code> (does not support Ubuntu 13.10), Unity Lens for searching the Recoll index in Ubuntu Software Center. Or run command below:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo apt-get install kio-recoll recoll-lens<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux Desktops. It is based on the very strong Xapian search engine library, for which it provides a powerful text extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical interface. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names: It can search any document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[801,800],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-full-text-search-tool","tag-recoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}