Sphinx is an SQL full-text search engine that’s being used more and more in the Rails world. We’ve built some packages to provide Sphinx 0.9.8.1 on Ubuntu Hardy. It comes with some basic man pages and the included documentation and examples, but it’s obviously more useful when used with a Rails plugin, such as Thinking Sphinx or Ultrasphinx.
So, rather than downloading the sources and compiling yourself, just install from our APT repository. If you’re on a Brightbox it’s just:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sphinx-search
Otherwise you’ll need to configure our repository manually.
We’re of course hoping to get these package accepted upstream at Debian/Ubuntu, so using Sphinx will be easy for everyone.
Happy indexing!