Fess is an open-source full-text search server based on Apache Lucene. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Fess on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Fess requires Java to run. You can install the latest version of Java using the following command:
sudo pacman -S jdk-openjdk
The latest version of Fess can be downloaded from the Fess website at https://fess.codelibs.org/. Choose the appropriate version for your operating system and download the binary file. For Manjaro, the file should be fess-x.x.x.zip.
Once the download is complete, extract the contents of the ZIP file to a directory of your choice. We recommend using the /opt directory for installations of this kind. Run the following commands to extract the file and rename the resulting directory:
sudo unzip fess-x.x.x.zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/fess-x.x.x /opt/fess
Fess stores its configuration in the /opt/fess/app/WEB-INF/classes/fess_config.properties file. To make changes to the configuration, edit this file with your preferred text editor.
Some of the settings that you may want to change include:
To start Fess, navigate to the /opt/fess directory and run the fess script with the following command:
sudo /opt/fess/bin/fess
You can now access Fess by visiting http://localhost:8080/ in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Fess on Manjaro. With Fess installed, you can now start building full-text search applications that can index and search large amounts of data.
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