Installation

Some contents where taken from Jim’s excellent post.
See here

In order to use acts_as_xapian you have to install Xapian and its bindings for other languages (including Ruby).

Contents
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• a. Official Docs, related Information
• b. Install Xapian on Mac OSX
• c. Install Xapian for ruby enterprise edition on Ubuntu (and it’s likely to work on Debian too)
• d. (more is coming soon)

a. Official Docs, related Information
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Installation Information

Download Xapian

Xapian on freshmeat.net
(There you can subscribe for updates on the Xapian project)

Note: If you are using 10.6 (Snow Leopard) you will need to apply this patch or use Xapian 1.0.16 or later.

cd /usr/local/src

Download & install xapian-core to /opt:

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.9/xapian-core-1.0.9.tar.gz

tar xzvf xapian-core-1.0.9.tar.gz

cd xapian-core-1.0.9

./configure —prefix=/opt

make

sudo make install

Download & install xapian-bindings to /opt:

wget http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.9/xapian-bindings-1.0.9.tar.gz

tar xzvf xapian-bindings-1.0.9.tar.gz

cd xapian-bindings-1.0.9

./configure —prefix=/opt XAPIAN_CONFIG=/opt/bin/xapian-config

make

sudo make install

c. Install Xapian for Ruby Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu
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as posted on Google Groups by Jim Mulholland. Thank you.

It is possible to symlink the 2 xapian-binding related files from the core Ruby 1.8.6 to the Ruby Enterprise Edition.
Here are the steps to get this work on Ubuntu where Ruby
Enterprise was installed at /usr/local/ruby-enterprise:

# Install these 2 packages via apt-get:  libxapian15 and libxapian-ruby1.8
$ cd /usr/local/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/1.8
$ ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xapian.rb
$ cd /usr/local/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/_xapian.so
$ sudo apache2ctl restart