The File->Show_missing_helpers menu item in the recoll GUI mentions the following missing helper (among others): Perl::Image::ExifTool (image/gif image/jpeg image/png image/tiff image/x-xcf) Per the recoll user manual I installed the perl image exif tool (and library): sudo aptitude install libimage-exif-perl libimage-exiftool-perl but recoll still lists the missing helper and fails to index images. uname -a: Linux AlSSD 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:52:48 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux