Install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch
Learn how to install sphinxsearch with the command sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of sphinxsearch:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: sphinxsearch
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch
Package Details | |
| Package: | sphinxsearch |
| Version: | 2.0.4-0ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | Fast standalone full-text SQL search engine Sphinx is a standalone full text search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes). . Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/misc |
How to install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If sphinxsearch is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L sphinxsearch' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L sphinxsearch Package `sphinxsearch' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing sphinxsearch:
After system update use the following command to install sphinxsearch:
sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove sphinxsearch from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the sphinxsearch from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the sphinxsearch following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove sphinxsearch
Following command is used to remove the sphinxsearch package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove sphinxsearch
This will remove sphinxsearch and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing sphinxsearch with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge sphinxsearch
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove sphinxsearch
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with sphinxsearch package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.