How to install sphinx on Amazon Linux
Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
Availability
| Distro | aarch64 | noarch | x86_64 | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | ✓ | — | ✓ | 2.2.11 |
| Amazon Linux 2012.03 | — | — | ✓ | 2.2.11 |
| Amazon Linux 2 | ✓ | — | ✓ | 2.2.11 |
Description
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (e.g. for embedded use) is also available upon request. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML format. Adding new drivers (e.g. native support other DBMSes) is designed to be as easy as possible. Search API native ported to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and also available as a plug-gable MySQL storage engine. API is very lightweight so porting it to new language is known to take a few hours. As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.
Built for Amazon Linux.
Install
sphinx on Amazon Linux 2, 2012.03, 2023
sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm sudo dnf -y install sphinx
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Subscribe — from $10/moFrequently asked questions
How do I install sphinx on Amazon Linux?
Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then install the sphinx package with your system package manager.
Which Amazon Linux versions is sphinx available for?
sphinx is available for Amazon Linux 2, 2012.03, 2023.