How To Install sphinx on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinx on CentOS 8.
What is sphinx
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (e.g. for embedded use) is also available upon request. Generally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML format. Adding new drivers (e.g. native support other DBMSes) is designed to be as easy as possible. Search API native ported to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and also available as a plug-gable MySQL storage engine. API is very lightweight so porting it to new language is known to take a few hours. As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU’s Sphinx project.
We can use yum or dnf to install sphinx on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sphinx.
Install sphinx on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sphinx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sphinx
Install sphinx on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sphinx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sphinx
How To Uninstall sphinx on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sphinx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sphinx
sphinx Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/sphinx
/etc/sphinx
/etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf
/usr/bin/indexer
/usr/bin/indextool
/usr/bin/searchd
/usr/bin/spelldump
/usr/bin/wordbreaker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/ab8cb7713c394664b66c3ca6425ad6f2666496
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/e8de9786d066f7bc92301da2fa029ee43bf6b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/439b719ee1a17cf77bc03d20b623c95e116e16
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/3430c82bb5fd636dca665dc93e7d80a8e8d6f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/12866853fdb40afc48099bfccbdb4dd651eae7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/searchd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sphinx.conf
/usr/share/doc/sphinx
/usr/share/doc/sphinx/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sphinx/example.sql
/usr/share/doc/sphinx/sphinx-min.conf.dist
/usr/share/doc/sphinx/sphinx.conf.dist
/usr/share/doc/sphinx/sphinx.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/indexer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/indextool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/searchd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spelldump.1.gz
/var/lib/sphinx
/var/log/sphinx
/var/run/sphinx
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinx on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.