X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=6099ed01b39d1c4a9b4476bddebe40d0e5f2109b;hp=9cf328eea3186910ad9dd5cbbc44893325d46b74;hb=60ac94fe58635f9c40724afa0f35965fc9ff1afc;hpb=bb1f03f0b9692ca782e8c397b87a09d7455c4452 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 9cf328ee..6099ed01 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -18,20 +18,10 @@ will call configure for you). See this command: 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 2.6, +Talloc, and zlib which are each described below: Xapian ------ @@ -40,7 +30,7 @@ which are each described below: 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 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether @@ -49,14 +39,14 @@ which are each described below: 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 2.6 + ---------- + 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 http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ Talloc ------ @@ -68,18 +58,41 @@ which are each described below: 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 http://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. + +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: For Debian and similar: - sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev + sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python-sphinx For Fedora and similar: - sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel + sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python-sphinx On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of the package names may be different.