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Daniel Bartholomew
Daniel Bartholomew
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Daniel Bartholomew

Daniel Bartholomew has been using Linux since 1997 and databases since 1998. In addition to this book, he has also written MariaDB Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and dozens of articles for various magazines, including The Linux Journal, Linux Pro, Ubuntu User, and Tux. He became involved with the MariaDB project shortly after it began in early 2009 and continues to be involved to this day. He currently works for MariaDB, Inc. and splits his time between managing MariaDB releases, documentation, and maintaining various bits and pieces that keep the MariaDB project running smoothly.
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Installing the Sphinx daemon on Linux


In order to use SphinxSE and Sphinx, we must install the daemon on our server. This recipe covers the process for Linux servers running Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS.

How to do it...

  1. On Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian, go to the Sphinx download site at http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/ and download the latest Sphinx package for our Linux distribution.

  2. On Debian or Ubuntu servers, run the following statement to install the Sphinx daemon:

    sudo apt-get install unixodbc libpq5 mariadb-client
    sudo dpkg -i sphinxsearch*.deb
    
  3. On Red Hat and CentOS, run the following statement to install the Sphinx daemon:

    sudo yum install postgresql-libs unixODBC
    sudo rpm -Uhv sphinx*.rpm
    
  4. On Fedora, run the following command to install Sphinx:

    sudo yum install sphinx
    
  5. On all server types, configure the Sphinx daemon as described in the Configuring the Sphinx daemon recipe in this chapter.

  6. On Ubuntu and Debian, edit the /etc/default/sphinxsearch file and set...

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Daniel Bartholomew

Daniel Bartholomew has been using Linux since 1997 and databases since 1998. In addition to this book, he has also written MariaDB Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and dozens of articles for various magazines, including The Linux Journal, Linux Pro, Ubuntu User, and Tux. He became involved with the MariaDB project shortly after it began in early 2009 and continues to be involved to this day. He currently works for MariaDB, Inc. and splits his time between managing MariaDB releases, documentation, and maintaining various bits and pieces that keep the MariaDB project running smoothly.
Read more about Daniel Bartholomew