MyTechStopage: INSTALLATION OF SOLR-6.1.0 IN UBUNTU 15.10 LTS

Hello friends I have just install Solr-6.1.0 in my system and here I

am here to tell you how to install Solr- 6.1.0 in ubuntu 15.10 LTS.

There are few steps that you need to be done, and Solr will be running in your system.

Brief about Solr

It is open source enterprise “search” platform like google, Bing.

It's framework, core derived from “Apache Lucene”

Mainly used to impove searching capabilty

It's core is written in java, but API's are available in many other languages

Solr is the second-most popular enterprise search engine after “Elasticsearch”

You put documents in it(called “indexing”) via XML, JSON,CSV or binary over HTTP

You query it via HTTP GET and get XML,JSON,CSV,or binary results.

How to Install Solr-6.1.0 in ubuntu 15.10

Please follow the steps to install Solr Open terminal in your system

and type these commands

step 1:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Step 2:

apt-get install software-properties-common

Step 3:

sudo apt-get update

Step 4:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Check java version:

java -version

Step 5:

cd /tmp or another directory you want to locate Solr

Step 6:

Please check that file exist in that site or not by visiting

http://www.us.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/

wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/6.1.0/solr-6.1.0.tgz

Check Solr downloaded filed in the directory type

Output:

solr-6.1.0.tgz

Step 7:

Now, run the given below command to extract the service

installation file:

tar xzf solr-6.1.0.tgz solr-6.1.0/bin/install_solr_service.sh –strip-

components=2

Outout:

install_solr_service.sh

Step 8:

sudo ./install_solr_service.sh solr-6.1.0.tgz

Output:

./install_solr_service.sh solr-6.1.0.tgz

id: solr: no such user

Creating new user: solr

Adding system user `solr' (UID 123) ...

Adding new group `solr' (GID 132) ...

Adding new user `solr' (UID 123) with group `solr' ...

Creating home directory `/var/solr' ...

Extracting solr-6.1.0.tgz to /opt

Installing symlink /opt/solr -> /opt/solr-6.1.0 ...

Installing /etc/init.d/solr script ...

Installing /etc/default/solr.in.sh ...

● solr.service - LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service

Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/solr)

Active: active (exited) since Sun 2016-07-17 19:35:16 IST; 5s ago

Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

Process: 8038 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/solr start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jul 17 19:35:10 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service...

Jul 17 19:35:10 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p su[8040]: Successful su for solr by root

Jul 17 19:35:10 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p su[8040]: + ??? root:solr

Jul 17 19:35:10 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p su[8040]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user solr by (uid=0)

Jul 17 19:35:16 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p solr[8038]: [169B blob data]

Jul 17 19:35:16 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p solr[8038]: Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=8098). Happy searching!

Jul 17 19:35:16 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p solr[8038]: [14B blob data]

Jul 17 19:35:16 tarun-HP-EliteBook-8460p systemd[1]: Started LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service.

Service solr installed.

Step 9:

sudo service solr status

Output

service solr status

● solr.service - LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service

Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/solr)

Active: active (exited) since Sun 2016-07-17 19:35:16 IST; 19min ago