Sphinx: Getting Practical

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Article Source Linux Magazine
June 21, 2009, 7:14 pm

Last week we looked at the Sphinx search engine from a high-level point of view. Now let’s look at getting and building the code, some basic setup, and how to build and query indexes.

In order to build Sphinx, you will need the MySQL client libraries (libmysql) and header files (libmysql-dev) as well as the expat library (libexpat) and header files (libexpat-dev) installed in standard locations. Once you have those, you can grab the latest version of the Sphinx trunk from Google Code subversion repository…

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