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Setting up Thinking-Sphinx on Mac OS X using Homebrew

Out of the box, Homebrew does a default installation on Sphinx:

$ brew install sphinx

However, if you're using MySQL, the thinking-sphinx gem won't work because it needs to use MySQL libraries.

If you managed to screw up the first time, uninstall sphinx first:

$ brew remove sphinx

and do an interactive reinstallation:

$ brew install --interactive sphinx

This will take you to the installation folder, so you can do additional commands yourself. Add MySQL dependencies by doing:

$ ./configure --with-mysql

$ make

$ make install

@NewAlexandria
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Instead, you can brew install sphinx --mysql

Find the options for any formula with brew options <formula_name>

@Sjors
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Sjors commented Dec 31, 2012

@NewAlexandria when I do that, it tells me:
"Sphinx depends on either MySQL or PostreSQL as a datasource"

I also tried adding the path to my mysql installation (also installed through homebrew):
brew install sphinx --mysql=/usr/local/bin

@Sjors
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Sjors commented Dec 31, 2012

When I try --interactive method, I end up with a message saying "Error: Empty installation". In this case I used --mysql=/user/local in stead of /user/local/bin, to avoid an error message.

@johny
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johny commented Jan 7, 2013

Even though my installation ended with the same error message, sphinx is working for me. Try running searchd

@flsafe
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flsafe commented Jan 20, 2013

I also received the message "Sphinx depends on either MySQL or PostreSQL as a datasource". Despite the error indexing with MySQL worked just fine.

@iradofurioso
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I installed MySQL fistly and after Sphinx I had no problems. MySQL was installed through brew also.

@bluesand
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bluesand commented Mar 2, 2014

when i installed with --mysql, there is a waring Warning: Could not fix libmysqlclient.18.dylib in /usr/local/Cellar/sphinx/2.1.4/bin/wordbreaker.Am I wrong ? I installed MySQL with dmg firstly,thx.

@hishammalik
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brew install sphinx --mysql worked fine for me

@VVCepheiA
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brew install sphinx --mysql
==> Downloading http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.5-release.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx-2.2.5.tar.gz
==> Downloading http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz

################################################################## 100.0%

Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: 9b0f120a68a3c688b2f5a8d0f681620465c29d38
Actual: 1ac6bb16e829e9f3a58f62c27047c26784975aa1
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx--stemmer-c.tgz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

Same error after removing the sphinx--stemmer-c.tgz

@benoitr
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benoitr commented Nov 15, 2014

@VVCepheiA I have the same issue, do you find a fix?

@nasospsa
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@paulomcnally
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ruby-2.1.5| Paulos-MacBook-Pro in ~/develop/test/audio
○ → brew install sphinx
==> Downloading http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.5-release.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx-2.2.5.tar.gz
==> Downloading http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx--stemmer-c.tgz
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: 9b0f120a68a3c688b2f5a8d0f681620465c29d38
Actual: 1ac6bb16e829e9f3a58f62c27047c26784975aa1
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx--stemmer-c.tgz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

@mrichman
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mrichman commented Dec 8, 2014

+1 for @paulomcnally's issue:

$ brew install sphinx
==> Downloading http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.1.9-release.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx-2.1.9.tar.gz
==> Downloading http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz
######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: bbe1ba5bbebb146575a575b8ca3342aa3b91bf93
Actual: 1ac6bb16e829e9f3a58f62c27047c26784975aa1
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sphinx--stemmer-c.tgz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

@prostil
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prostil commented Dec 12, 2014

I had the same error but surprisingly it was resolved by doing this

  1. Remove the .tgz from /Library/Caches/Homebrew/
  2. run : brew update
  3. brew install sphinx

After sphinx is installed you can install either mysql connector or PostreSQL, at the end of sphinx installation you will get the commands that you need to run

@shivanibhanwal
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Now to install sphix with mysql you should use

brew install sphinx --with-mysql

@arkilis
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arkilis commented May 2, 2020

Seems like brew install sphinx --with-mysql have the following error:

Error: invalid option: --with-mysql

brew version:
Homebrew 2.2.14
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 9fd5f; last commit 2020-05-02)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 0aca0; last commit 2020-05-02)

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