How to Install and Uninstall recoll Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "recoll" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install recoll on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "recoll" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall recoll on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                recoll
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the recoll package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: recoll
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 5373
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Kartik Mistry
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.21.5-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.5.0), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5webkit5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.2.0), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libxapian22v5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Recommends: aspell, python, xdg-utils, xsltproc
Suggests: antiword, catdoc, ghostscript, libimage-exiftool-perl, poppler-utils, pstotext, python-chm, python-mutagen, unrtf, untex
Filename: pool/universe/r/recoll/recoll_1.21.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1535472
MD5sum: 4afec61a46dee3aaef2321bb4a388e07
SHA1: 3c2d71039b18cc14b258669e014f80bc9f8667c8
SHA256: d50acfb7f481d36961c9bff37697d276cea76b77d230080d886cc1fa1af9b779
Description-en: Personal full text search package with a Qt GUI
This package is a personal full text search package is based on a very strong
backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich
interface.
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Features:
* Qt-based GUI
* Supports the following document types (and their compressed versions)
- Natively: text, html, OpenOffice files, maildir and mailbox (Mozilla and
IceDove mail) with attachments, pidgin log files
- With external helpers: pdf (pdftotext), postscript (ghostscript), msword
(antiword), excel, ppt (catdoc), rtf (unrtf)
* Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on file
types and directory tree
* Support for multiple charsets, Internal processing and storage uses Unicode
UTF-8
* Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
indexing)
* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
necessary
* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an external,
cron'able program
Description-md5: c493c35ab0ec3b1513ea5bc2a65be1cd
Homepage: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu