I'm trying to install the latest version of Recoll (1.20.1) on Ubuntu 14.04.
I've downloaded the tar file from the developer website (under 'Source') and copied it to /usr/local/src
where I extracted it with tar -xvf recoll-1.20.1
creating a new folder called recoll-1.20.1
. The folder contains the following files and directories.
/usr/local/src/recoll-1.20.1$ dir
aspell configure.ac internfile python unac
autom4te.cache COPYING kde qtgui utils
bincimapmime desktop lib query VERSION
ChangeLog doc Makefile.in rcldb
common filters makestaticdist.sh README
config.log index mk recollinstall.in
configure INSTALL php sampleconf
Recoll's installation guide says simply install with make
and make install
, however that is not working for me although there is a configure.ac
file that looks okay to me when looking at it in gedit.
Would be great if someone could post a solution. Here further are some more details of my failed workarounds.
When typing in make
I'm getting the following output:
/usr/local/src/recoll-1.20.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
I've tried autoconf -v
which gives me the below output.
/usr/local/src/recoll-1.20.1$ autoconf -v
autoconf: running /usr/bin/autom4te -v --language=autoconf --output=configure configure.ac
autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tr1Oufp/dependencies': include, m4_include
autom4te: up_to_date (autom4te.cache/traces.0): up to date
autom4te: the trace request object is:
autom4te: $VAR1 = bless( [
autom4te: '0',
autom4te: 1,
autom4te: [
autom4te: '/usr/share/autoconf'
autom4te: ],
autom4te: [
autom4te: '/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f',
autom4te: 'configure.ac'
autom4te: ],
autom4te: {
autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_INIT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_BUILD' => 1,
autom4te: 'LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_SILENT_RULES' => 1,
autom4te: '_AM_COND_ENDIF' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_FC_SRCEXT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_LIBSOURCE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' => 1,
autom4te: '_AM_MAKEFILE_INCLUDE' => 1,
autom4te: '_LT_AC_TAGCONFIG' => 1,
autom4te: 'm4_pattern_allow' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_NLS' => 1,
autom4te: 'AH_OUTPUT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_POT_TOOLS' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_SUBST' => 1,
autom4te: 'LT_INIT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_FC_PP_SRCEXT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_MAKEFILE_INCLUDE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_AR' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_FC_PP_DEFINE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_CXX_C_O' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_CONDITIONAL' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_SUBST_TRACE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_FC_C_O' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_LINKS' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_FILES' => 1,
autom4te: '_AM_COND_IF' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PATH_GUILE' => 1,
autom4te: 'include' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_TARGET' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' => 1,
autom4te: 'm4_include' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_MOC' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_CC_C_O' => 1,
autom4te: 'sinclude' => 1,
autom4te: '_AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_PROG_F77_C_O' => 1,
autom4te: 'LT_SUPPORTED_TAG' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_FC_FREEFORM' => 1,
autom4te: '_m4_warn' => 1,
autom4te: 'AC_CANONICAL_HOST' => 1,
autom4te: '_AM_COND_ELSE' => 1,
autom4te: 'm4_sinclude' => 1,
autom4te: 'AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION' => 1,
autom4te: 'm4_pattern_forbid' => 1
autom4te: }
autom4te: ], 'Autom4te::Request' );
autom4te: formatting traces for `/tmp/am4tr1Oufp/warnings': _m4_warn
autom4te: reading /tmp/am4tr1Oufp/warnings
I've checked /tmp/am4tr1Oufp/warnings
but there is no warning etc.
When running ./configure
I'm getting the below. However according to the INSTALL file 'xapian' and 'iconv' (libiconv) will be sorted during the installation. So, I was thinking that shouldn't be a problem.
/usr/local/src/recoll-1.20.1$ ./configure
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sys/param.h usability... yes
checking sys/param.h presence... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking tr1/unordered_map usability... yes
checking tr1/unordered_map presence... yes
checking for tr1/unordered_map... yes
checking unordered_map usability... no
checking unordered_map presence... no
checking for unordered_map... no
checking for sys/mount.h... yes
checking for sys/statfs.h... yes
checking for sys/statvfs.h... yes
checking for sys/vfs.h... yes
checking for file... /usr/bin/file
checking for aspell... /usr/bin/aspell
configure: aspell support enabled but aspell package not found. Compiling with internal aspell interface file
configure: enabled support for inotify monitoring
configure: FAM support enabled but inotify support also enabled. Disabling FAM support and using inotify
checking for mkdtemp... yes
checking for type of inbuf parameter to iconv... checking for type of string parameter to putenv... checking for xapian-config... no
checking for xapian-config-1.3... no
checking for xapian-config-1.1... no
configure: error: Cannot find xapian-config command in /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games. Is
xapian-core installed ?
xapian-core
package, howeverxapian-config
appears to be provided bylibxapian-dev
libxapian-dev
like steeldriver suggested? It really looks likeconfigure
is just noticing a missing dependency.