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Justin White
Justin White

Reputation: 714

Installing Sphinx on Linux VPS

After hours of searching Google and StackOverflow, I haven't been able to resolve this issue...

I'm trying to install Sphinx Search on my VPS, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that this search feature is extremely important to my project.

I've tried the following commands in puTTy to unpack the Sphinx tarball:

tar xzvf sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz

tar -xzvf sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz

It says there's no such file or directory. I know the file is there because I put it there myself, so I'm assuming now that I've misunderstood what is going on here.

Can someone get me past this step so that I can get lost on the next one?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 809

Answers (1)

barryhunter
barryhunter

Reputation: 21091

It says there's no such file or directory. I know the file is there because I put it there myself,

Probably not in the right folder - need to 'cd' into the folder containing the file.

But as you dont seem that familer with linux, would suggest using the RPM file instead - so dont have to compile from source.

get the RPM from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/ and then upload that. Then use "yum localinstall nameofrpmfile.rpm"

Check the output of uname -a to find if you have 64bit or 32bit system. If mentions x86_64 you have 64bit, and so want the x86_64 RPM file.

Upvotes: 2

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