We have the following instructions for installing Xapian on Ubuntu 12.04:

 

Install Xapian:

 

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-core-1.2.13.tar.gz

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-omega-1.2.13.tar.gz

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-bindings-1.2.13.tar.gz

 

tar zxvf xapian-core-1.2.13.tar.gz

tar zxvf xapian-omega-1.2.13.tar.gz

tar zxvf xapian-bindings-1.2.13.tar.gz

 

cd xapian-core-1.2.13

sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

 

cd xapian-omega-1.2.13

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

 

cd xapian-bindings-1.2.13

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

 

sudo cpan Search::Xapian

 

We were wondering if it is preferable to use the Ubuntu packages instead?

 

We found these packages:

 

libept-dev - High-level library for managing Debian package information

libxapian-dev - Development files for Xapian search engine library

libxapian22 - Search engine library

libxapian22-dbg - Debugging symbols for the Xapian Search engine library

xapian-doc - Core Xapian documentation

xapian-examples - Xapian simple example programs

libsearch-xapian-perl - Perl bindings for the Xapian search library

xapian-omega - CGI search interface and indexers using Xapian

xapian-tools - Basic tools for Xapian search engine library

 

libsearch-xapian-perl looks to be the equivalent to CPAN’s Search::Xapian?

Does anyone have any experience with installing xapian on Ubuntu this way?

 

Thanks!

 

Tomasz

 

 

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Tomasz Neugebauer

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Concordia University Libraries

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