Installing the Sphinx daemon on Linux

In order to use SphinxSE and Sphinx, we must install the daemon on our server. This recipe covers the process for Linux servers running Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS.

How to do it...

1. On Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian, go to the Sphinx download site at http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/ and download the latest Sphinx package for our Linux distribution.

2. On Debian or Ubuntu servers, run the following statement to install the Sphinx daemon:

   sudo apt-get install unixodbc libpq5 mariadb-client
   sudo dpkg -i sphinxsearch*.deb
   

3. On Red Hat and CentOS, run the following statement to install the Sphinx daemon:

   sudo yum install postgresql-libs unixODBC
   sudo rpm -Uhv sphinx*.rpm
   

4. On Fedora, run the following command to install Sphinx:

   sudo yum install sphinx
   

5. On all server types, configure the Sphinx daemon as described in the Configuring the Sphinx daemon recipe in this chapter.

6. On Ubuntu and Debian, edit the /etc/default/sphinxsearch file and set...