[EP-tech] Antwort: Re: Xapian install on Ubuntu 12.04

[martin.braendle at id.uzh.ch]

Hi Seb,

can you answer the following questions:

- what do you mean by "be careful using the default eprints-xapian
indexing" (shipped with eprints 3.3.12) ? Are there any known problems?
- in as far can the code on https://github.com/eprints/xapianv2 be
considered as finished and be recommended for production?
- was faceting tested on a real-world repo having 10'000s of records (and
not only on 93 as with http://puffin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) ? Is performance
still good? E.g., on http://www.zora.uzh.ch/, depending on the search terms
used, one may obtain 1000s of records.

Best regards,

Martin


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Von:	sf2 <sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
An:	eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Datum:	19/12/2014 21:51
Betreff:	[EP-tech] Re: Xapian install on Ubuntu 12.04
Gesendet von:	eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk



Sure thing.. install libxapian, libsearch-xapian-perl (yup that's
Search::Xapian) and voila. Then I'd install xapian-tools because some of
their utility are damned useful to debup/map a xapian DB.


Then as a word of caution, I'd say be careful in using the default
eprints-xapian indexing (what's shipped with eprints 3.3.x basically) cos
it's very basic. Perhaps look up https://github.com/eprints/xapianv2 to do
more advanced stuff such as faceting.


Seb





On 19.12.2014 20:25, Tomasz Neugebauer wrote:


 We have the following instructions for installing Xapian on Ubuntu 12.04:





 Install Xapian:





          wget
          http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-core-1.2.13.tar.gz


          wget
          http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-omega-1.2.13.tar.gz


          wget
          http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.13/xapian-bindings-1.2.13.tar.gz





          tar zxvf xapian-core-1.2.13.tar.gz


          tar zxvf xapian-omega-1.2.13.tar.gz


          tar zxvf xapian-bindings-1.2.13.tar.gz





          cd xapian-core-1.2.13


          sudo apt-get install uuid-dev


          sudo ./configure


          sudo make


          sudo make install





          cd xapian-omega-1.2.13


          sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev


          sudo ./configure


          sudo make


          sudo make install





          cd xapian-bindings-1.2.13


          sudo ./configure


          sudo make


          sudo make install





          sudo cpan Search::Xapian





 We were wondering if it is preferable to use the Ubuntu packages instead?





 We found these packages:





 libept-dev - High-level library for managing Debian package information


 libxapian-dev - Development files for Xapian search engine library


 libxapian22 - Search engine library


 libxapian22-dbg - Debugging symbols for the Xapian Search engine library


 xapian-doc - Core Xapian documentation


 xapian-examples - Xapian simple example programs


 libsearch-xapian-perl - Perl bindings for the Xapian search library


 xapian-omega - CGI search interface and indexers using Xapian


 xapian-tools - Basic tools for Xapian search engine library





 libsearch-xapian-perl looks to be the equivalent to CPAN’s Search::Xapian?


 Does anyone have any experience with installing xapian on Ubuntu this way?





 Thanks!





 Tomasz








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