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Packages Binary packages are available for the following operating systems : ArchLinux Debian Fedora FreeBSD Frugalware Gentoo Mandriva OpenBSD SourceMage SuSE Ubuntu Zenwalk Prerequisites You will need the following packages to compile and run Pinot. The version numbers indicate the minimum version Pinot has been tested with; older versions may or may not work. gtkmm v2.10, user interface Xapian v1.0.4, probabilistic information retrieval libtextcat v2.2, language guessing SQLite v3.3.1, embedded SQL database libxml++ v2.12, XML parsing inotify-enabled kernel, file monitoring curl v7.13, HTTP support GMime v2.4, mbox parsing boost v1.32, for the Spirit parsers generator D-Bus with GLib bindings, for interacting with the daemon shared-mime-info, for MIME type detection desktop-file-utils, for installing the desktop file unzip v5.52, ZIP files extraction pdftotext, PDF to text conversion unrtf v0.19, RTF to HTML conversion antiword v0.36, MS Word to text conversion catdoc, XLS and PPT to text conversion catdvi, for DVI files libexif v0.6, pictures metadata TagLib v1.4, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis metadata libarchive v2.6.2, compressed or uncompressed archive formats Deskbar Applet v2.14.0, if you want to use the pinot-live.py or pinot-module.py plugin If you are planning to hack the source, you may want to install glademm v2.12.0 to regenerate the GUI code. Current status Pinot is developed on Fedora. Chances are it will compile and run without too many issues on most Linux distributions and Unices. Everything is logged to "~/.pinot/pinot.log" and "~/.pinot/pinot-dbus-daemon.log". If you experience an issue, feel free to send these files to the author with a description of the problem and how to reproduce it, if possible. Please refer to the summary page and the NEWS file for a list of changes since the last version. You may also want to have a look at the FAQ. Source SRPM Tarball Online browsing with WebSVN The latest Web engine plugins can be found here. To check out the latest source from Subversion, run : svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/pinot/trunk ArchLinux A package is available in AUR here. Thanks go to Eric Belanger, Alexander Fehr and Daniel J Griffiths. Install it with pacman. Debian There are packages for Debian stable, testing and unstable. Install with : # apt-get install pinot Please report bugs using "reportbug pinot" on the command line. Fedora Pinot is in Fedora 8 and newer, thanks to Adel Gadllah. Install with $ yum install pinot pinot-deskbar FreeBSD Thanks to Thierry Thomas, Pinot and its dependencies are in FreshPorts. More information can be found on this page. If the daemon crashes unexpectedly, add the following lines to /etc/libmap.conf (which may not exist) : [/usr/local/bin/pinot-dbus-daemon] libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6 libpthread.so libc_r.so [/usr/local/bin/pinot] libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6 libpthread.so libc_r.so Refer to the libmap.conf(5) man page for details. Frugalware Pinot is in the frugalware-current repository, thanks to Gabriel "Crazy". Install it with pacman. Gentoo Claudio Bustos Navarrete put together an overlay for Pinot. Get it here. Mandriva RPMs tailored for Mandriva are available, thanks to Tomasz Pawel Gajc. Ask Sophie here. SourceMage Andraz "ruskie" Levstik has submitted Pinot to the Test Grimoire. Install with : # scribe add test # cast pinot OpenBSD Antoine Jacoutot successfully ported Pinot to OpenBSD. The package is available on OpenPorts.se. SuSE Thanks to Marcus Rueckert, RPMs for Pinot, Xapian and libtextcat are here. See the instructions. As for dependencies, they are included in SuSE 10.1 except antiword and unrtf. If I am not mistaken, both were available for SuSE 9.x, so rebuilding the SRPMs should be easy. Ubuntu Gauvain Pocentek was kind enough to package Pinot for Ubuntu. It is now in the universe repository. You may also want to use the offical Xapian.org packages. Zenwalk Oskar has packaged Pinot and its dependencies for Zenwalk. The whole thing is now in the extra repository.