Gigablast is a powerful open-source web search engine that allows you to easily index and search large collections of web pages. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Gigablast on Debian Latest.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:
To update your system, run the following command:
sudo apt update
To install the required packages, run the following command:
sudo apt install -y git build-essential libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libgd-dev libssl-dev libgeoip-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libreadline-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
To clone the Gigablast repository, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine.git
To build Gigablast, navigate to its directory and run the following command:
cd open-source-search-engine/
make
This process may take some time.
To configure Gigablast, run the following command:
./gb -i
Follow the prompts to set up the search engine.
To start Gigablast, run the following command:
./gb
Gigablast will now be running and available for use.
In this tutorial, we discussed the process of installing Gigablast on Debian Latest. You can now easily index and search large collections of web pages with the powerful open-source search engine.
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