Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

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Time for action - installation on a Mac

Download the latest stable version of the sphinx source from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html.
```
$ tar -xzvf sphinx-0.9.9.tar.gz $ cd sphinx-0.9.9 
```

Run the configure utility:

$ ./configure -prefix=/usr/local/sphinx

If you are on a 64 bit Mac then use the following command to configure:

LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx $ make $ sudo make install

Next, run the make command:
```
$ make 
```
Finally, run the following command to complete your configuration:
```
$ sudo make install 
```

What just happened?

We downloaded the Sphinx source and extracted it using the tar command. We then configured Sphinx and built it using the make command. The options to configure are the same as we used while installing Sphinx in Linux.

The only notable difference between installation on Linux and Mac is that if your Mac is 64 bit, your configure command is changed slightly as given above.

Other supported systems

Above we learned how to install Sphinx on Linux, Windows, and Mac. However, these are not the only systems on which Sphinx can be installed. Sphinx is also supported on the following systems:

FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
NetBSD 1.6, 3.0
Solaris 9, 11

Note

Installation procedure for the above mentioned systems is more or less similar to how it is done on a Linux system.

Note