Follow URL http://devw3.com/linux/installing-sphinx-search-server-from-source

First we need to grab the Source pacakage from Sphinxsearch download section. use te below command to get the file.

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.9-release.tar.gz

now we have sphinx source package in our server.

First step is to uncompress the sphinx-2.0.4-release.tar.gz file using below command

tar -zxf 'sphinx-2.0.4-release.tar.gz'

then enter into the directory sphinx-2.0.4-release

cd sphinx-2.0.4-release

Am installing sphinx in /usr/local/sphinx directory so we have to create the directory

mkdir /usr/local/sphinx

i want to install sphinx server in /usr/local/sphinx so i have to set the path while configure using -prefix option

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx

we can specify sphinx to use MYSQL by adding –with-mysql to ./configure

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-mysql

if above command not able to find mysql libraries. we have to provide the libraries path

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

For installing sphinx with PostgreSQL specify lik this –with-pgsql

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-pgsql

if above command not able to find pgsql libraries. we have to provide the libraries path

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-pgsql=/usr/local/include/postgresql

next setp is make and make install

make
make install

complete pre is (make sure you’re downloading the latest version from the site)

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.9-release.tar.gz
tar -zxf sphinx*.tar.gz
cd sphinx*
mkdir /usr/local/sphinx
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx
make
make install

Now we have installed sphinx search server

Errors

if you get error sphinx.h:54:19: error: mysql.h: No such file or directory.

sphinx.h:54:19: error is because mysql-devel is not installed on the server. To fix this we have to install mysql-devel.

use below command to install mysql-devel

yum install mysql-devel