install xapian inside virtualenv

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

export VENV=$VIRTUAL_ENV
mkdir $VENV/packages && cd $VENV/packages

curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.18/xapian-core-1.2.18.tar.xz
curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.18/xapian-bindings-1.2.18.tar.xz

tar xf xapian-core-1.2.18.tar.gz
tar xf xapian-bindings-1.2.18.tar.gz

cd $VENV/packages/xapian-core-1.2.18
./configure --prefix=$VENV && make && make install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VENV/lib

cd $VENV/packages/xapian-bindings-1.2.18
./configure --prefix=$VENV --with-python && make && make install

python -c "import xapian" 

pip install django-haystack
pip install git+https://github.com/notanumber/xapian-haystack.git

Thanks for sharing! Worked like a charm on ubuntu 14.04

thanks a ton!

worked in ubuntu16

Fails for me on Ubuntu18.04, with an "internal compiler error", when making the xapian_wrap.lo target. (xapian-core builds fine, this was xapian-bindings)

Turns out that was because my server was running out of memory :)

I got an error:

tar: xapian-core-1.2.18.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now