On 6/20/2013 9:30 AM, adamc wrote:
I am wondering why there is no official Solr RPM. I wish Solr releases rpm like Sphinx does, http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/
I agree with you that Solr should be much easier to get running than it is. There are some roadblocks, though.
Solr isn't an executable program. It's a webapp. It requires a java servlet container to run. The Solr *example* has a slimmed down install of Jetty in it that you can run, but it's just that - an example. It is *not* a trivial thing to create an installable package of Solr.
Packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu because those distributions have maintainers that have done the required work to split our package into smaller pieces. They've done a very different job than you would see if we were to make an installer, because they are integrating Lucene as a separate dependency for both Solr and for other search packages.
Thanks, Shawn
