Installing Sphinx on Linux VPS - sphinx

After hours of searching Google and StackOverflow, I haven't been able to resolve this issue...
I'm trying to install Sphinx Search on my VPS, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that this search feature is extremely important to my project.
I've tried the following commands in puTTy to unpack the Sphinx tarball:
tar xzvf sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz
tar -xzvf sphinx-2.0.6-release.tar.gz
It says there's no such file or directory. I know the file is there because I put it there myself, so I'm assuming now that I've misunderstood what is going on here.
Can someone get me past this step so that I can get lost on the next one?

It says there's no such file or directory. I know the file is there because I put it there myself,
Probably not in the right folder - need to 'cd' into the folder containing the file.
But as you dont seem that familer with linux, would suggest using the RPM file instead - so dont have to compile from source.
get the RPM from
http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/
and then upload that. Then use "yum localinstall nameofrpmfile.rpm"
Check the output of uname -a to find if you have 64bit or 32bit system. If mentions x86_64 you have 64bit, and so want the x86_64 RPM file.

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How can i install two different version perl on my linux?

I have a Linux server, and it has its own Perl whose version is not what I want. So I want to install another Perl on it.
I tried to solve it with Perlbrew, but my server can't download it. It seems like my server does not trust that website address. And I don't know whether I should download it as root. Besides, I think there is a huge difference between root and a normal user to download and install it, and I just want do it as a normal user.
Is there another way install different version Perl on my server?
I downloaded the version I want before, and I tried to install it in a usual way, but it just failed.
Here is the wrong when I tap the command
wget -O - https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash as a normal user.
Maybe I should tap it as root?
And when I try to install the Perl v5.8.8(this is version I want) in ~/bin,i run the Configure.
But I can not run make after that, it just told me that make:No rule to make target , needed by miniperlmain.o Stop.
Besides,
my Linux is Centos 7.4. I don`t how to fix it.
It seems that I find a way to let me to make.
Here is the link.
After I edit the makedepend.SH, I run make again. But I got this wrong:
The thing is really weird. Why Perl V5.8.8 is so difficult to install.
The easy answer is 'just install perl' - it'll drop by default into /usr/local/bin, and you can just use that instead.
DON'T overwrite /usr/bin/perl, as that's a recipe for pain. (Lots of stuff will have dependencies on perl versions installed via your package manager).

Cannot use Swift on Ubuntu 18.04

After conscientiously following the install instructions on Linux from swift.org, I encounter an issue where it is not possible to compile anything on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine. The REPL seems to work but during compilation (when calling swift build) the following error appears:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
There are more details in the full bug report [SR-9093]. I don't know at all what to do to solve this issue, there are similar problems already mentioned in other bug reports, for instance on this really old one [SR-35].
What should I do?
Thank you
I am assuming that you had already installed the libstdc++ successfully and you have set the permissions properly. But I really doubt that it was installed correctly but it was installed with corruption of some sort. The corruption occurred because you didn't install libstdc++ via a package manager. Result was some form of weirdness in the package manager database which effected the overall functioning system. Exactly why adding something to a folder should change anything at all. I don't know why this happens, unless the folder is hot i.e symbolically linked to a program which doesn't have any tolerance for hacks like simply copying a file into the folder. So for now try to install the libstdc++ again. Below is the link to the file to again download the correct program and this is compatible with amd64.
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-5/libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10_amd64.deb
And below are some link to help
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1425470
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=808045
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=808045
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libstdc%2B%2B
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/libstdc++6
Install libstdc++
sudo apt install libstdc++6
It seems possible that the apt install did not run the ldconfig program, which should be run to add the library to the list of those which ld.so knows about.
It looks like you can do it manually:
sudo ldconfig
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: I don't have Ubuntu and haven't been able to test this. And it's a sudo command. Run at your own risk, YMMV, etc.
If this does not work, it's possible that a file called /etc/ld.so.conf is not set up to search the directory where libstdc++ ended up. I wouldn't dare try to describe how to fix that.
sudo apt install -f
The command above should install any missing dependencies.

Installing cpan or cpanm modules on a behind-firewall machine with no Internet connection

I've already read related threads like these, but they do not fully capture our situation.
This is on a firewalled machine. No net access. We can ftp files to folders and install modules from there.
We have CHMOD 777 for our users on some folders. We can install Perl modules if we locally build them by downloading the relevant .pm files. But when these files cannot install, we do not have any cpan or cpanm.
I'd like to install, for example, HTML::Restrict. If I do the download + install thing, the Restrict.pm gives me this error:
/lib/HTML/Restrict.PM:328: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding UTF-8"
Reading a bit online suggests that this could be an old Perl problem. We use 5.8.x. Our own dev machines have the luxury of 5.16.x and internet access so installing module is a cinch. Anyway, one of my older machines also has 5.8.x, and installing the module via cpanminus worked there (with internet).
So, question: is it possible to install "cpanminus" (cpanm) through FTP, then upload specific module files to the server through FTP too, and then go into shell and install modules via cpanm by pointing it to respective .pm files?
Thank you for any pointers.
You should take a look at perldoc perlmodinstall which goes into detail about how to install a module from its distribution. It follows what should be a familiar incantation
Decompress
Unpack
Build
Test
Install
Assuming you're on a Linux system, this commonly takes take the form of
gzip -d My-Module-Distribution.tar.gz
tar -xof My-Module-Distribution.tar
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
But after the Unpack stage you will often find a README file or other text file that will describe any unusual steps to be taken
Clearly some of these steps can be combined. For instance, most people will probably want to use
tar -xvfz My-Module-Distribution.tar.gz
to avoid having to invoke gzip separately. Likewise, the make system will force a build phase as a prerequisite if you use just
make test
without the preceding make
The linked document has a lot to say about how to install on other platforms, should you not be running a Linux variant
I still don't really understand your thinking, but you can get a stand-alone version of cpanm using curl. For instance
curl -sS --location https://cpanmin.us/ --output cpanm
then you should be able to just copy it to your target machine, put it on your PATH, and do
cpanm HTML-Restrict-2.2.2.tar.gz
but I doubt if you will find any change to the specific errors you are getting

how to uninstall doxygen using make file on Ubuntu (12.04)?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I have installed doxygen 1.8.3.1 using make install.
I would like to uninstall the doxygen built by make, but I don't find any way to do it using make (uninstall or clean...).
In the Makefile there is no reference to uninstall it the software. :(
Unfortunately I can't use the sudo apt-get remove doxygen because it wasn't an installed. :(
I don't find anything related on the internet.
Can anyone help me, please?
Thank you in advance,
Fabiola
There is no "uninstall" target. You need to do a "rm" be hand. If you used the standard prefix path "/usr/local" then
rm /usr/local/bin/doxygen
rm /usr/local/man/man.1/doxygen.1
(more if you install the docs are wizard). Depend on the user used for install, you need sudo to do it.
I know this question is old, but since it is the first result in google I would like to share another way of uninstalling Doxygen built from source. In the build directory where you've ran make there should by a file name install_manifest.txt. That file contains paths to files that were installed using make install command. All you need to do is to run the following command:
sudo xargs rm < install_manifest.txt
Of course this assumes that you've kept the build directory or at least the install_manifest.txt file. If not you need to remove the files by hand as somebody already suggested.

How can I find shp2pgsql?

I'm working on a Debian machine with postgresql installed. I need to find shp2pgsql (a utility that converts shapefiles into SQL, as the name suggests).
I've seem suggestions that it's located in the bin directory of postgresql, however I don't know where to find this. I can't locate shp2pgsql through a simple find (probably much too simple, since my Unix skills are not that good):
$ find ~ -name 'shp2pgsql' -print
$
Any suggestions?
Thanks - apologies for the basic question!
I'm pretty sure you need PostGIS installed - its part of that package. You can install it from that site, or its likely that Debian's package manager even has it. Where it ends up depends on package builder.
Actually finding it, if its not in your PATH after you install PostGIS, is probably easiest done through locate shp2pgsql although you may need to updatedb first.
Additionally, you can find your Postgres relevant directories by running pg_config .
The first argument to find is the path from which to search. ~ is your home directory. Your command searches shp2pgsql from your home directory, not in the bin directory. With find, user command find /usr/lib/postgresql/ -name shp2pgsql.
If your system has locate installed, you could also locate shp2pgsql.