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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY xapian-download-http
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| 8 | "http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/&xapian-version;/xapian-core-&xapian-version;.tar.xz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY xapian-download-ftp " ">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY xapian-md5sum "7c9f7259042b3a1ca7dc765b8e4d8318">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY xapian-size "2.9 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY xapian-buildsize "250 MB (add 289 MB for tests)">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY xapian-time "0.6 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 34 SBU for tests)">
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| 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect1 id="xapian" xreflabel="xapian-&xapian-version;">
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| 17 | <?dbhtml filename="xapian.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 21 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 22 | </sect1info>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <title>Xapian-&xapian-version;</title>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <indexterm zone="xapian">
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| 27 | <primary sortas="a-xapian">xapian</primary>
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| 28 | </indexterm>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 31 | <title>Introduction to xapian</title>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>
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| 34 | Xapian is an open source search engine library.
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| 35 | </para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | &lfs91_checked;
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 40 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 41 | <listitem>
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| 42 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&xapian-download-http;"/></para>
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| 43 | </listitem>
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&xapian-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &xapian-md5sum;</para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Download size: &xapian-size;</para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &xapian-buildsize;</para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>Estimated build time: &xapian-time;</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | </itemizedlist>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xapian Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 64 | <para role="optional">
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| 65 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/> (for tests)
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| 66 | </para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 69 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/xapian"/></para>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | </sect2>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 74 | <title>Installation of Xapian</title>
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| 75 | <!-- Interesting footnote - SSE support is only enabled on i686.
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| 76 | There seems to be some trickery involved in that. It's not essential
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| 77 | to operation on x86_64 though, so look into it at the next version of
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| 78 | xapian. -->
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <para>Install <application>Xapian</application> by
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| 81 | running the following commands:</para>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 84 | --disable-static \
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| 85 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xapian-core-&xapian-version; &&
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| 86 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <para>
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| 89 | <!--
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| 90 | The regression tests are not recommended. On a fast (3.2 GHz i7)
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| 91 | system they took over five hours and two of four tests (the valgrind
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| 92 | tests) failed. To run the test suite anyway,
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| 93 | issue: <command>make check</command>.
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| 94 | The tests with 1.4.15 took under an hour, at 34 SBU total. Marking
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| 95 | the testsuite as usable again. I had four passes and 0 failures:
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| 96 | PASS: apitest
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| 97 | PASS: internaltest
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| 98 | PASS: stemtest
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| 99 | PASS: unittest
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| 100 | I did have Valgrind installed too. -renodr -->
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| 101 | To run the test suite, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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| 102 | </para>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | </sect2>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 111 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <segmentedlist>
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| 114 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 115 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 116 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <seglistitem>
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| 119 | <seg>
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| 120 | copydatabase, quest, simpleexpand, simpleindex, simplesearch,
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| 121 | xapian-check, xapian-compact, xapian-config,
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| 122 | xapian-delve, xapian-metadata, xapian-pos, xapian-progsrv,
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| 123 | xapian-replicate, xapian-replicate-server and xapian-tcpsrv
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| 124 | </seg>
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| 125 | <seg>
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| 126 | libxapian.so
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| 127 | </seg>
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| 128 | <seg>
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| 129 | /usr/include/xapian,
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| 130 | /usr/lib/cmake/xapian,
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| 131 | /usr/share/doc/xapian-core-&xapian-version;, and
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| 132 | /usr/share/xapian-core
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| 133 | </seg>
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| 134 | </seglistitem>
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| 135 | </segmentedlist>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <variablelist>
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| 138 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 139 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 140 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <varlistentry id="copydatabase">
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| 143 | <term><command>copydatabase</command></term>
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| 144 | <listitem>
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| 145 | <para>
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| 146 | perform a document-by-document copy of one or more
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| 147 | <application>Xapian</application> databases.
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| 148 | </para>
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| 149 | <indexterm zone="xapian copydatabase">
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| 150 | <primary sortas="b-copydatabase">copydatabase</primary>
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| 151 | </indexterm>
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| 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | </varlistentry>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <varlistentry id="quest">
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| 156 | <term><command>quest</command></term>
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| 157 | <listitem>
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| 158 | <para>
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| 159 | is a search command line tool.
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| 160 | </para>
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| 161 | <indexterm zone="xapian quest">
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| 162 | <primary sortas="b-quest">quest</primary>
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| 163 | </indexterm>
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| 164 | </listitem>
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| 165 | </varlistentry>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <varlistentry id="simpleexpand">
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| 168 | <term><command>simpleexpand</command></term>
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| 169 | <listitem>
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| 170 | <para>
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| 171 | is a simple example program demonstrating query expansion.
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| 172 | </para>
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| 173 | <indexterm zone="xapian simpleexpand">
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| 174 | <primary sortas="b-simpleexpand">simpleexpand</primary>
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| 175 | </indexterm>
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| 176 | </listitem>
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| 177 | </varlistentry>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <varlistentry id="simpleindex">
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| 180 | <term><command>simpleindex</command></term>
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| 181 | <listitem>
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| 182 | <para>
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| 183 | index each paragraph of a text file as a
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| 184 | <application>Xapian</application> document.
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| 185 | </para>
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| 186 | <indexterm zone="xapian simpleindex">
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| 187 | <primary sortas="b-simpleindex">simpleindex</primary>
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| 188 | </indexterm>
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| 189 | </listitem>
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| 190 | </varlistentry>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <varlistentry id="simplesearch">
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| 193 | <term><command>simplesearch</command></term>
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| 194 | <listitem>
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| 195 | <para>
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| 196 | is a simple command line search utility.
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| 197 | </para>
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| 198 | <indexterm zone="xapian simplesearch">
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| 199 | <primary sortas="b-simplesearch">simplesearch</primary>
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| 200 | </indexterm>
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| 201 | </listitem>
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| 202 | </varlistentry>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | <varlistentry id="xapian-check">
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| 205 | <term><command>xapian-check</command></term>
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| 206 | <listitem>
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| 207 | <para>
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| 208 | check the consistency of a database or table.
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| 209 | </para>
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| 210 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-check">
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| 211 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-check">xapian-check</primary>
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| 212 | </indexterm>
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| 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 | </varlistentry>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <!--
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| 217 | <varlistentry id="xapian-chert-update">
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| 218 | <term><command>xapian-chert-update</command></term>
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| 219 | <listitem>
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| 220 | <para>
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| 221 | update a chert database to the new format keys.
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| 222 | </para>
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| 223 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-chert-update">
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| 224 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-chert-update">xapian-chert-update</primary>
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| 225 | </indexterm>
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| 226 | </listitem>
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| 227 | </varlistentry>
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| 228 | No longer installed in 1.4.15. - renodr
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| 229 | -->
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| 230 |
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| 231 | <varlistentry id="xapian-compact">
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| 232 | <term><command>xapian-compact</command></term>
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| 233 | <listitem>
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| 234 | <para>
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| 235 | compact a database, or merge and compact several.
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| 236 | </para>
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| 237 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-compact">
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| 238 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-compact">xapian-compact</primary>
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| 239 | </indexterm>
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| 240 | </listitem>
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| 241 | </varlistentry>
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| 242 |
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| 243 | <varlistentry id="xapian-config">
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| 244 | <term><command>xapian-config</command></term>
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| 245 | <listitem>
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| 246 | <para>
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| 247 | report information about the installed xapian.
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| 248 | </para>
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| 249 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-config">
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| 250 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-config">xapian-config</primary>
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| 251 | </indexterm>
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| 252 | </listitem>
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| 253 | </varlistentry>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | <varlistentry id="xapian-delve">
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| 256 | <term><command>xapian-delve</command></term>
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| 257 | <listitem>
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| 258 | <para>
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| 259 | inspect the contents of a <application>Xapian</application>
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| 260 | database.
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| 261 | </para>
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| 262 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-delve">
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| 263 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-delve">xapian-delve</primary>
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| 264 | </indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <varlistentry id="xapian-metadata">
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| 269 | <term><command>xapian-metadata</command></term>
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| 270 | <listitem>
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| 271 | <para>
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| 272 | read and write user metadata.
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| 273 | </para>
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| 274 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-metadata">
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| 275 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-metadata">xapian-metadata</primary>
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| 276 | </indexterm>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 | </varlistentry>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <varlistentry id="xapian-pos">
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| 281 | <term><command>xapian-pos</command></term>
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| 282 | <listitem>
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| 283 | <para>
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| 284 | inspect the contents of a flint table for development or debugging.
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| 285 | </para>
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| 286 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-pos">
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| 287 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-pos">xapian-pos</primary>
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| 288 | </indexterm>
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| 289 | </listitem>
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| 290 | </varlistentry>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | <varlistentry id="xapian-progsrv">
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| 293 | <term><command>xapian-progsrv</command></term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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| 295 | <para>
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| 296 | remote server for use with <application>ProgClient</application>.
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| 297 | </para>
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| 298 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-progsrv">
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| 299 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-progsrv">xapian-progsrv</primary>
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| 300 | </indexterm>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 | </varlistentry>
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| 303 |
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| 304 | <varlistentry id="xapian-replicate">
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| 305 | <term><command>xapian-replicate</command></term>
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| 306 | <listitem>
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| 307 | <para>
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| 308 | replicate a database from a master server to a local copy.
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| 309 | </para>
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| 310 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-replicate">
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| 311 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-replicate">xapian-replicate</primary>
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| 312 | </indexterm>
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| 313 | </listitem>
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| 314 | </varlistentry>
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| 315 |
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| 316 | <varlistentry id="xapian-replicate-server">
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| 317 | <term><command>xapian-replicate-server</command></term>
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| 318 | <listitem>
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| 319 | <para>
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| 320 | service database replication requests from clients.
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| 321 | </para>
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| 322 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-replicate-server">
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| 323 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-replicate-server">xapian-replicate-server</primary>
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| 324 | </indexterm>
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| 325 | </listitem>
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| 326 | </varlistentry>
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| 327 |
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| 328 | <varlistentry id="xapian-tcpsrv">
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| 329 | <term><command>xapian-tcpsrv</command></term>
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| 330 | <listitem>
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| 331 | <para>
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| 332 | is the TCP daemon for use with <application>Xapian</application>'s
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| 333 | remote backend.
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| 334 | </para>
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| 335 | <indexterm zone="xapian xapian-tcpsrv">
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| 336 | <primary sortas="b-xapian-tcpsrv">xapian-tcpsrv</primary>
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| 337 | </indexterm>
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| 338 | </listitem>
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| 339 | </varlistentry>
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| 340 |
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| 341 | </variablelist>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | </sect2>
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| 344 |
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| 345 | </sect1>
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