Install Quest On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian

Install Quest On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian

quest

Open source search engine library.

Maintainer: Olly Betts



Section: utils

Install quest

  • Debian apt-get install xapian-tools Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install xapian-tools 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 xapian-tools Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install xapian-core Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install xapian-tools Click to copy

xapian-core

Open source search engine library.

xapian-tools

Basic tools for Xapian search engine library

This package contains several tools related to Xapian. - copydatabase: Copy one or more Xapian databases. - delve: Inspect the contents of a Xapian database. - quartzcheck: Check the validity of a quartz-format Xapian database. - quartzcompact: Compact a quartz database, or merge and compact several. - quartzdump: Dump (part of) a quartz-format Xapian database. - quest: Command line search of a Xapian database. - xapian-check: Check the validity of a Xapian database. - xapian-compact: Compact a quartz database, or merge and compact several. - xapian-progsrv: stdin/stdout based server, for searching databases remotely. - xapian-tcpsrv: TCP based server, used for searching databases remotely. 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.

To install the latest version of quest in your favorite operating system just copy the quest installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of quest 2026 package in your OS.