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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY xapian-download-http
8 "https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/&xapian-version;/xapian-core-&xapian-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY xapian-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY xapian-md5sum "b570c2e47f157bee29584994657aafbb">
11 <!ENTITY xapian-size "3.1 MB">
12 <!ENTITY xapian-buildsize "144 MB (add 162 MB for tests)">
13 <!ENTITY xapian-time "0.5 SBU (add 3.5 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="xapian" xreflabel="xapian-&xapian-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="xapian.html"?>
18
19
20 <title>Xapian-&xapian-version;</title>
21
22 <indexterm zone="xapian">
23 <primary sortas="a-xapian">xapian</primary>
24 </indexterm>
25
26 <sect2 role="package">
27 <title>Introduction to xapian</title>
28
29 <para>
30 Xapian is an open source search engine library.
31 </para>
32
33 &lfs121_checked;
34
35 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
36 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
37 <listitem>
38 <para>
39 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&xapian-download-http;"/>
40 </para>
41 </listitem>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&xapian-download-ftp;"/>
45 </para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>
49 Download MD5 sum: &xapian-md5sum;
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download size: &xapian-size;
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Estimated disk space required: &xapian-buildsize;
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Estimated build time: &xapian-time;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 </itemizedlist>
68
69 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xapian Dependencies</bridgehead>
70
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
72 <para role="optional">
73 <xref linkend="valgrind"/> (for tests)
74 </para>
75
76
77 </sect2>
78
79 <sect2 role="installation">
80 <title>Installation of Xapian</title>
81 <!-- Interesting footnote - SSE support is only enabled on i686.
82 There seems to be some trickery involved in that. It's not essential
83 to operation on x86_64 though, so look into it at the next version of
84 xapian. -->
85
86 <para>
87 Install <application>Xapian</application> by
88 running the following commands:
89 </para>
90
91<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
92 --disable-static \
93 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xapian-core-&xapian-version; &amp;&amp;
94make</userinput></screen>
95
96 <para>
97 <!--
98 The regression tests are not recommended. On a fast (3.2 GHz i7)
99 system they took over five hours and two of four tests (the valgrind
100 tests) failed. To run the test suite anyway,
101 issue: <command>make check</command>.
102 The tests with 1.4.15 took under an hour, at 34 SBU total. Marking
103 the test suite as usable again. I had four passes and 0 failures:
104 PASS: apitest
105 PASS: internaltest
106 PASS: stemtest
107 PASS: unittest
108 I did have Valgrind installed too. -renodr -->
109 To run the test suite, issue: <command>make check</command>.
110 </para>
111
112 <para>
113 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
114 </para>
115
116<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
117
118 </sect2>
119
120 <sect2 role="content">
121 <title>Contents</title>
122
123 <segmentedlist>
124 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
125 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
126 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
127
128 <seglistitem>
129 <seg>
130 copydatabase, quest, simpleexpand, simpleindex, simplesearch,
131 xapian-check, xapian-compact, xapian-config,
132 xapian-delve, xapian-metadata, xapian-pos, xapian-progsrv,
133 xapian-replicate, xapian-replicate-server and xapian-tcpsrv
134 </seg>
135 <seg>
136 libxapian.so
137 </seg>
138 <seg>
139 /usr/include/xapian,
140 /usr/lib/cmake/xapian,
141 /usr/share/doc/xapian-core-&xapian-version;, and
142 /usr/share/xapian-core
143 </seg>
144 </seglistitem>
145 </segmentedlist>
146
147 <variablelist>
148 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
149 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
150 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
151
152 <varlistentry id="copydatabase">
153 <term><command>copydatabase</command></term>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>
156 performs a document-by-document copy of one or more
157 <application>Xapian</application> databases
158 </para>
159 <indexterm zone="xapian copydatabase">
160 <primary sortas="b-copydatabase">copydatabase</primary>
161 </indexterm>
162 </listitem>
163 </varlistentry>
164
165 <varlistentry id="quest">
166 <term><command>quest</command></term>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>
169 is a command line tool to search through a database
170 </para>
171 <indexterm zone="xapian quest">
172 <primary sortas="b-quest">quest</primary>
173 </indexterm>
174 </listitem>
175 </varlistentry>
176
177 <varlistentry id="simpleexpand">
178 <term><command>simpleexpand</command></term>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>
181 is a simple example program demonstrating query expansion
182 </para>
183 <indexterm zone="xapian simpleexpand">
184 <primary sortas="b-simpleexpand">simpleexpand</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188
189 <varlistentry id="simpleindex">
190 <term><command>simpleindex</command></term>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>
193 indexes each paragraph of a text file as a
194 <application>Xapian</application> document
195 </para>
196 <indexterm zone="xapian simpleindex">
197 <primary sortas="b-simpleindex">simpleindex</primary>
198 </indexterm>
199 </listitem>
200 </varlistentry>
201
202 <varlistentry id="simplesearch">
203 <term><command>simplesearch</command></term>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>
206 is a simple command line search utility
207 </para>
208 <indexterm zone="xapian simplesearch">
209 <primary sortas="b-simplesearch">simplesearch</primary>
210 </indexterm>
211 </listitem>
212 </varlistentry>
213
214 <varlistentry id="xapian-check">
215 <term><command>xapian-check</command></term>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>
218 checks the consistency of a database or table
219 </para>
220 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-check">
221 <primary sortas="b-xapian-check">xapian-check</primary>
222 </indexterm>
223 </listitem>
224 </varlistentry>
225
226 <!--
227 <varlistentry id="xapian-chert-update">
228 <term><command>xapian-chert-update</command></term>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>
231 update a chert database to the new format keys.
232 </para>
233 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-chert-update">
234 <primary sortas="b-xapian-chert-update">xapian-chert-update</primary>
235 </indexterm>
236 </listitem>
237 </varlistentry>
238 No longer installed in 1.4.15. - renodr
239 -->
240
241 <varlistentry id="xapian-compact">
242 <term><command>xapian-compact</command></term>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>
245 compacts a database, or merges and compacts several databases
246 </para>
247 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-compact">
248 <primary sortas="b-xapian-compact">xapian-compact</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 <varlistentry id="xapian-config">
254 <term><command>xapian-config</command></term>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>
257 reports information about the installed version of xapian
258 </para>
259 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-config">
260 <primary sortas="b-xapian-config">xapian-config</primary>
261 </indexterm>
262 </listitem>
263 </varlistentry>
264
265 <varlistentry id="xapian-delve">
266 <term><command>xapian-delve</command></term>
267 <listitem>
268 <para>
269 inspects the contents of a <application>Xapian</application>
270 database
271 </para>
272 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-delve">
273 <primary sortas="b-xapian-delve">xapian-delve</primary>
274 </indexterm>
275 </listitem>
276 </varlistentry>
277
278 <varlistentry id="xapian-metadata">
279 <term><command>xapian-metadata</command></term>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>
282 reads and writes user metadata
283 </para>
284 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-metadata">
285 <primary sortas="b-xapian-metadata">xapian-metadata</primary>
286 </indexterm>
287 </listitem>
288 </varlistentry>
289
290 <varlistentry id="xapian-pos">
291 <term><command>xapian-pos</command></term>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>
294 inspects the contents of a flint table for development or debugging
295 </para>
296 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-pos">
297 <primary sortas="b-xapian-pos">xapian-pos</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="xapian-progsrv">
303 <term><command>xapian-progsrv</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>
306 is a remote server for use with <application>ProgClient</application>
307 </para>
308 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-progsrv">
309 <primary sortas="b-xapian-progsrv">xapian-progsrv</primary>
310 </indexterm>
311 </listitem>
312 </varlistentry>
313
314 <varlistentry id="xapian-replicate">
315 <term><command>xapian-replicate</command></term>
316 <listitem>
317 <para>
318 replicates a database from a master server to a local copy
319 </para>
320 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-replicate">
321 <primary sortas="b-xapian-replicate">xapian-replicate</primary>
322 </indexterm>
323 </listitem>
324 </varlistentry>
325
326 <varlistentry id="xapian-replicate-server">
327 <term><command>xapian-replicate-server</command></term>
328 <listitem>
329 <para>
330 services database replication requests from clients
331 </para>
332 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-replicate-server">
333 <primary sortas="b-xapian-replicate-server">xapian-replicate-server</primary>
334 </indexterm>
335 </listitem>
336 </varlistentry>
337
338 <varlistentry id="xapian-tcpsrv">
339 <term><command>xapian-tcpsrv</command></term>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>
342 is the TCP daemon for use with <application>Xapian</application>'s
343 remote backend
344 </para>
345 <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-tcpsrv">
346 <primary sortas="b-xapian-tcpsrv">xapian-tcpsrv</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 </variablelist>
352
353 </sect2>
354
355</sect1>
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