On Ubuntu Intrepid, this will get you Sphinx for rapid super-fast full-text searching.
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
wget http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf sphinx*.gz
cd sphinx*
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo gem install ultrasphinx
Tested and works ok
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Note about Ubuntu Installs
Had a bit of a problem with installing this on Ubuntu, RAKE just couldn’t find the inspector and searchd binaries.
Found a way to fix this by configuring it like….
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx
Then doing the usual make and make install, but creating a symlink afterwards with
ln -s /usr/bin /usr/local/sphinx/bin
And then added a path to my .bashrc file, probably overkill after the first bit but got it working.
nano ~/.bashrc
Then adding…
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/sphinx/bin"
Missing Programs?
Note, if you’re logged in as a normal user some system commands like smartctl will return command not found even though you know you installed them.
Just use sudo at the start and they should be found and run.
