Xapian discuss - Oct 2009 - Install questions for 1.0.16 and 1.1.2

I sent two emails to Xapian Discussion yesterday but I guess it didn't 
send correctly. Sorry if it goes out more than once.



On Oct 20 2009, Ying Liu wrote:

 > Hello All,
 >
 > I accidentally upgrade Perl from 5.10.0 to 5.10.1. So, it couldn't 
find previous installed Perl modules and I reinstalled them. When I 
reinstall Search-Xapian-1.0.16.0, it tells me "You've asked me to link 
against what appears to be an uninstalled xapian-core tree, but I can't 
find libtool in that tree". I tried to reinstalled xapian-core and 
xapian-omega and xapian-bindings, but this problem still exits.
 >
 > By command "dpkg --get-selections > installed-software", I
found
three packages related to xapian. They are "apt-xapian-index", 
"libxapian15", and "python-xapian". Should I remove those?
 > Thank you,
 > Ying
 >

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I removed the three packages by 'apt-get remove apt-xapian-index', 
'apt-get remove libxapian15" and 'apt-get remove
python-xapian'. After
that, when I run 'dpkg --get-selections > installed-software', it
tells
me they are 'deinstall' and the info of 'python-xapian' are
gone.

apt-xapian-index  deinstall
libxapian15      deinstall


And then, I tried to reinstall xapian-core-1.0.16. After that, the 
installed-software doesn't update and still shows the apt-xapian-index 
is deinstall. BTW, I am using Ubuntu 9.04, and the computer is Dell 
Optiplex 960. I still could not install the Search-Xapian Perl modules. 
Still tells me You've asked me to link against what appears to be an 
uninstalled xapian-core tree, but I can't find libtool in that tree".


I downloaded Xapian 1.1.2 and tried to install this version at 
http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.1.2/. For xapian-core, after I ran 
'./configure', it has an error "uuid/uuid.h not found - required
for
chert and flint (you may need to install the uuid-dev or libuuid-devel 
package)." Then, I download the
"uuid-dev_1.2-1.41.4-lubuntu1_lpia.deb"
package. When I run the uuid package, it told me Wrong architecture
'lpia'.

Thanks,
Ying

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:36:04AM -0400, Ying Liu wrote:
> I sent two emails to Xapian Discussion yesterday but I guess it didn't
> send correctly.
You were using the wrong email address. You've found the right one now.
> Then, I download the "uuid-dev_1.2-1.41.4-lubuntu1_lpia.deb"
> package. When I run the uuid package, it told me Wrong architecture
> 'lpia'.
I strongly recommend learning to use the higher-level package
management systems in Ubuntu rather than trying to install individual
packages manually. This will avoid these kinds of problems.

It it entirely possible to build xapian-core on Ubuntu, even if
another version is already installed. I suggest you build
xapian-core 1.0.16, install it, and then build Search-Xapian against
it. (It sounds like you were trying to build Search-Xapian without
installing your new xapian-core.) If that doesn't work, come back with
just the first thing that goes wrong, with the full error message and
a list of steps taken up until that point.

J

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  James Aylett

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