How To Install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu.

What is `sphinxsearch`

sphinxsearch is:

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.

There are three methods to install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sphinxsearch Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sphinxsearch using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sphinxsearch

Install sphinxsearch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sphinxsearch using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sphinxsearch

Install sphinxsearch Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install sphinxsearch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sphinxsearch

How To Uninstall sphinxsearch on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the sphinxsearch package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sphinxsearch

Uninstall sphinxsearch And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sphinxsearch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sphinxsearch

Remove sphinxsearch Configurations and Data

To remove sphinxsearch configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sphinxsearch

Remove sphinxsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sphinxsearch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sphinxsearch

Dependencies

sphinxsearch have the following dependencies:

References

sphinxsearch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinxsearch package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.