Installing Xapian

This section covers installation process of Xapian and Xapian bindings 1.0.2 to your machine

Content

• Installing Xapian
• Content
• Requirements
• Install
• Installing Djapian
• 1. Installation using source package
• 2. Installation using easy_install
• 3. Installation of bleeding edge development version (not recommended)
• Other package sources

Requirements

• Linux (if you know how to install Xapian in Windows, let me know)
• wget
• gcc/g++ (compile only)
• Python shared (default in Linux, but not in Freebsd)

Install

From packages

There are a very good "How to install" packages in Xapian website: http://xapian.org/download.php

For Ubuntu

The version required to properly run Djapian (Xapian >=1.0.2) is found in Ubuntu Gutsy and upward :

 sudo apt-get install python-xapian xapian-tools

From source

Xapian Core

wget http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.2/xapian-core-1.0.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf xapian-core-1.0.2.tar.gz
cd xapian-core-1.0.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/xapian-1.0.2
make
su
make install

Xapian Bindings

Note: You must install xapian-core before this

wget http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.2/xapian-bindings-1.0.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf xapian-bindings-1.0.2.tar.gz
cd xapian-bindings-1.0.2
./configure --with-python
make
su
make install

Installing Djapian

To install Djapian you'll have to choice on of this available ways:

1. Installation using source package

You can download source archive and unpack it and with root privileges run (or use --prefix option):

# python setup.py install

2. Installation using easy_install

Djapian package can be installed with setuptools' easy_install program. To do so you need setuptools installed and this shell commands (with root prestigious):

# easy_install Djapian

or

# easy_install http://djapian.googlecode.com/files/Djapian-2.0.tar.gz

3. Installation of bleeding edge development version (not recommended)

For this setup variant you also need Subversion client. To get the most current source you have to checkout our repository:

svn checkout http://djapian.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ djapian

Then configure your PYTHON_PATH environment variable to include "/path/to/checkout/parent/dir/djapian/src"

Other package sources

Djapian can also be obtained from PyPi repository:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Djapian