How To Install Xapian-config?

How To Install Xapian-config?

xapian-config

Open source search engine library.

Maintainer: Olly Betts



Section: libdevel

Install xapian-config

  • Debian apt-get install libxapian-dev Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install libxapian-dev Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add xapian-core Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S xapian-core Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install libxapian-dev Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install xapian-core-devel Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install libxapian-dev Click to copy

xapian-core

Open source search engine library.

xapian-core-devel

use Xapian

libxapian-dev

Development files for Xapian search engine library

This package contains development libraries and headers for the core Xapian library. The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.

Installing xapian-config command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of xapian-config 2026 package in your OS.