Originally posted by sealbhach View Post
I just figured out how to install this recently so thought I'd share it here.

This is an abridged version of my blog post on how to do this.

This assumes you already have recoll installed and have created a recoll xapian index.

There is no deb package for recollrunner so you will need to download and compile it.

Download recollrunner from here and save it to your Downloads folder.

Make a folder there called recollrunner and copy the downloaded tar.bz2 archive into it.

Extract.

Open a terminal in this directory or do

cd $HOME/Downloads/recollrunner

I found I was missing a dependency, make sure you have kdelibs5-dev installed.

If you don’t then

sudo apt-get install kdelibs5-dev

You will also need to install cmake if you haven’t got it already.

You can get more hints on missing dependencies from here.

Once all the dependencies are satisfied the build process is easy.

Code:
mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kde4-config --prefix) ..

make

sudo make install
Then you need to run this command:

Code:
kbuildsycoca4
Now just hit Alt+F2 and check the krunner plugins to see that the recoll plugin is there.

The plugin creator suggest to restart krunner, you can do that like this:

Code:
kquitapp krunner && krunner
if you need to.

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