Instead using synaptic and install sphinxsearch deb package, we also can use the source. First, you should download source package from the sphinxsearch website http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/.
At this example, I use sphinx-2.0.4-release.tar.gz. I use Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. Then you can extract it and start compiling. Here are the steps to do :
1 2 3 4 5 6 | sudo apt-get install build-essential libmysql++-dev libmysqlclient18-dev tar -xvvf sphinx-2.0.4-release.tar.gz cd sphinx-2.0.4-release ./configure –with-mysql make sudo make install |
It will installed in /usr/local. For sphinx.conf, you can create it at /usr/local/etc.
If you need to uninstall sphinx search from source, then just go to previous folder (sphinx-2.0.4-release) and do :
1 | sudo make uninstall |