How To Install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34

libsphinxclient is Pure C search-d client API library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34.

What is libsphinxclient

Pure C search-d client API library Sphinx search engine, http

We can use yum or dnf to install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsphinxclient.

Install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libsphinxclient using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsphinxclient

Install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libsphinxclient using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsphinxclient

How To Uninstall libsphinxclient on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libsphinxclient

libsphinxclient Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/1f4f0ec80ecf3d3d0fbf7a9981dee96a9aea6c
/usr/lib64/libsphinxclient-0.0.1.so
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/README
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/MANIFEST.MF
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/README
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/SphinxClient.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/SphinxException.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/SphinxMatch.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/SphinxResult.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/SphinxWordInfo.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/mk.cmd
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/mkdoc.cmd
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/SphinxClient.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/SphinxException.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/SphinxMatch.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/SphinxResult.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/SphinxWordInfo.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/org/sphx/api/test.class
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/sphinxapi.jar
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/java/test.java
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/README.rdoc
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/Rakefile
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/init.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/install.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib/sphinx
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib/sphinx.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib/sphinx/client.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib/sphinx/request.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/lib/sphinx/response.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/client_response_spec.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/client_spec.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/default_search.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/default_search_index.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/excerpt_custom.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/excerpt_default.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/excerpt_flags.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/field_weights.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_exclude.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_float_range.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_float_range_exclude.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_range.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_range_exclude.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_range_int64.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filter_ranges.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filters.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/filters_different.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/geo_anchor.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_attr.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_attrpair.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_day.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_day_sort.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_month.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_week.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_by_year.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/group_distinct.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/id_range.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/id_range64.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/index_weights.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/keywords.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/limits.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/limits_cutoff.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/limits_max.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/limits_max_cutoff.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_all.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_any.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_boolean.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_extended.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_extended2.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_fullscan.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/match_phrase.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/max_query_time.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/miltiple_queries.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/ranking_bm25.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/ranking_none.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/ranking_proximity.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/ranking_proximity_bm25.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/ranking_wordcount.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/retries.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/retries_delay.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/select.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/set_override.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_attr_asc.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_attr_desc.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_expr.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_extended.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_relevance.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sort_time_segments.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/sphinxapi.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/update_attributes.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/update_attributes_mva.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/fixtures/weights.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/sphinx
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/sphinx/sphinx-id64.conf
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/sphinx/sphinx.conf
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/spec/sphinx/sphinx_test.sql
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/sphinx.yml.tpl
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/tasks
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/tasks/sphinx.rake
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/ruby/test.rb
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/sphinxapi.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/sphinxapi.py
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/test.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/test.py
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/test2.php
/usr/share/doc/libsphinxclient/test2.py

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsphinxclient on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.