Install Xapian

UPDATE / REORGANISATION
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• The project is no longer maintained by Francis Irving (alias frabcus). For that reason this wiki page about installing xapian isn’t updated any longer.
• For installation instructions on xapian and it’s ruby bindings see here.
• Thank you for your understanding.

Contents
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Some contents where taken from Jim’s excellent post.
See here

In order to use acts_as_xapian you have to install Xapian and its bindings for other languages (including Ruby).

• a. Official Docs, related Information
• b. Install Xapian on Mac OSX
• c. (more is coming soon)

a. Official Docs, related Information
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Installation Information

Download Xapian

Xapian on freshmeat.net
(There you can subscribe for updates on the Xapian project)

Install Xapian on Mac OSX
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cd /usr/local/src

Download & install xapian-core to /opt:

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.9/xapian-core-1.0.9.tar.gz

tar xzvf xapian-core-1.0.9.tar.gz

cd xapian-core-1.0.9

./configure —prefix=/opt

make

sudo make install

Download & install xapian-bindings to /opt:

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.9/xapian-bindings-1.0.9.tar.gz

tar xzvf xapian-bindings-1.0.9.tar.gz

cd xapian-bindings-1.0.9

./configure —prefix=/opt XAPIAN_CONFIG=/opt/bin/xapian-config

make

sudo make install