Now that you have been introduced to Sphinx Search, its time to set it up or install it. It is extremely simple. Just have a look at the guide for Debian, to give you an idea:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

tar xvzf sphinx-0.9.8-rc2.tar.gz
cd sphinx-0.9.8-rc2/
./configure \
--with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql
make
sudo make install

Below are two of the best guides I could find. One for installing on Debian and the other on CentOS.

• Install and configure Sphinx search engine for WordPress on CentOS RedHat | my-whiteboard
• Urban Puddle : Install Sphinx & Thinking Sphinx in Debian

Next time, we’ll look at configuring it to actually work. Also, how to run some queries and how the results from Sphinx Search looks.

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