How To Install zarafa-search on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa-search on CentOS 7. zarafa-search is Indexer search engine for the Zarafa Collaboration Platform

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa-search on CentOS 7.

The zarafa-search package includes the Zarafa Indexing service for fast and full-text searching. Using CLucene search engine, this service makes an index per user of messages and attachments for the Zarafa server. At search queries, the server will use this index to quickly find messages, items and even in contents of attached documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install zarafa-search on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zarafa-search.

Install zarafa-search on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zarafa-search using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zarafa-search

Install zarafa-search on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install zarafa-search

How To Uninstall zarafa-search on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the zarafa-search package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zarafa-search

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa-search on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.