How to install Recoll on Debian 8.3
How to install Recoll on Debian 8.3
Recoll is a cross-platform desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search in a interactive GUI with minimum sophistication and few mandatory external dependencies. The recoll document conversion and text extraction architecture makes it easy to write new filters. This tutorial covers the installation procedure for recoll on Debian 8.3.
Installation procedure
Before starting the installation procedure, use the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.
root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
The sources.list configuration file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Execute the apt-get update command to update the apt sources-list in the target system.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,790 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main amd64 Packages [6,790 kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib amd64 Packages [50.2 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free amd64 Packages [83.6 kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en [38.5 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Translation-en [4,583 kB]
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Fetched 23.3 MB in 1min 8s (340 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now install the Recoll package by executing the apt-get install recoll command
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install recoll
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
antiword catdoc libimage-exiftool-perl pstotext python-chm python-mutagen unrtf untex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
recoll
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 292 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,783 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,412 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package recoll.
(Reading database ... 136978 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../recoll_1.17.3-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking recoll (1.17.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Setting up recoll (1.17.3-2) ...
Once the package is installed click the activities window and type the recoll package name in the search bar. Click on the icon to run the application.
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