make
sudo make install
-You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
-Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
-notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
-dependencies.
+In fact, if you don't plan to pass any arguments to the configure
+script, then you can skip that step and just start with "make", (which
+will call configure for you). See this command:
-notmuch.el installation
------------------------
-Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
+ ./configure --help
- sudo make install-emacs
-
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to activate it.
+for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
+configure stage.
Dependencies
------------
-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
-which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and
+Talloc which are each described below:
Xapian
------
Xapian is available from http://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 2.4 or 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
------
Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
+dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
- sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
+ For Debian and similar:
-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
-the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of
-"dev").
+ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev
+
+ For Fedora and similar:
+ sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
+On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
+the package names may be different.