How To Install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinxsearch on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 18.04. 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 18.04
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 18.04, 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 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinxsearch package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
