Awesome Thanks Marius I will do this :-)
Jaco T On Friday, January 11, 2013 1:31:35 PM UTC+2, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen wrote: > > > Jaco Theron writes: > > > Encountered a problem with installing sphinx. (CentOS 6) > > > > sudo yum install -y sphinx > > > > The above command does not find sphinx. > > > > Instead I have used the source of sphinx: > > > > wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz > > tar xvfz sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz > > cd sphinx-2.0.6-release > > ./configure && make && make install > > cd .. > > > > Q: Is this approach acceptable? > > I would highly recommend using a packaged version on your computer, that > way you'll receive updates and dependencies can be resolved by your > package manager. > > You will need to enable the EPEL repository on your server, this is a > Yum repository maintained by the Fedora project, which contains a lot of > packages not included in CentOS and its upstream by default. > > This page has the instructions: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F > > You'll have to download and install an RPM (find the link from the above > link), it will add the repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/ on your > server. After that you can run > > yum install sphinx > > And you're all set. > > Cheers, > - Marius > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
