for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
configure stage.
-notmuch.el installation
------------------------
-Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
-
- sudo make install-emacs
-
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
-available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
-or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
-
Dependencies
------------
-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
-which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on four libraries: Xapian, GMime 3.0,
+Talloc, and zlib which are each described below:
Xapian
------
It provides all the real machinery of indexing and searching,
(including the very nice parsing of the query string).
- Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
+ Xapian is available from https://xapian.org
- After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
- named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
- least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
- program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
+ Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
+ Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
+ 1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
+ when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
+ reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
+ the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
- GMime 2.4
- ---------
- GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
+ GMime
+ -----
+ GMime provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
- GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
+ GMime is available from https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime
Talloc
------
made development of Notmuch much easier and much less prone to
memory leaks.
- Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
+ Talloc is available from https://talloc.samba.org/
+
+ zlib
+ ----
+
+ zlib is an extremely popular compression library. It is used
+ by Xapian, so if you installed that you will already have
+ zlib. You may need to install the zlib headers separately.
+
+ Notmuch needs the transparent write feature of zlib introduced
+ in version 1.2.5.2 (Dec. 2011).
+
+ zlib is available from https://zlib.net
+
+Building Documentation
+----------------------
+
+To build the documentation for notmuch you need at least version 1.0
+of sphinx (Jul. 2010).
+
+Sphinx is available from www.sphinx-doc.org.
+
+To install the documentation as "info" pages, you will need the
+additional tools makeinfo and install-info.
+
+Installing Dependencies from Packages
+-------------------------------------
On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
-dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
+dependencies with a single simple command line. For example:
For Debian and similar:
- sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
+ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-3.0-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python3-sphinx texinfo install-info
For Fedora and similar:
- sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+ sudo dnf install xapian-core-devel gmime30-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python3-sphinx texinfo info
On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
the package names may be different.
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