How to Install and Uninstall sphinx.x86_64 Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "sphinx.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidance below to install sphinx.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install sphinx.x86_64

2. Uninstall "sphinx.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall sphinx.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:

$ sudo dnf remove sphinx.x86_64 $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the sphinx.x86_64 package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 8:35:07 ago on Sun May 9 13:03:46 2021.
Available Packages
Name : sphinx
Version : 2.2.11
Release : 15.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 5.3 M
Source : sphinx-2.2.11-15.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
URL : http://sphinxsearch.com
License : GPLv2+
Description : Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2.
: Commercial licensing (e.g. for embedded use) is also available upon request.
:
: Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast,
: size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other
: applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL
: databases and scripting languages.
:
: Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via
: direct connection to MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML
: format. Adding new drivers (e.g. native support other DBMSes) is
: designed to be as easy as possible.
:
: Search API native ported to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and also
: available as a plug-gable MySQL storage engine. API is very lightweight so
: porting it to new language is known to take a few hours.
:
: As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL
: Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.