Manticore Search is a lightweight full-text search engine, and this article explains the installation process on Linux devices.
Manticore Search itself is an open-source database (available on GitHub), created in 2017 as a continuation of the Sphinx Search engine.
Installation Requirements#
To install directly using a package, the requirements are:
- Architecture: arm64 or x86_64
- The Manticore Columnar Library provides columnar storage and secondary indexes; if you want to use them, you need a CPU with SSE >= 4.2.
- No specific disk space or RAM requirements. An empty Manticore Search instance uses only about 40MB of RSS RAM.
Devices with ARM64 architecture, such as Raspberry Pi, Apple M1/M2, etc.
Check Installation Requirements#
You only need to confirm that the architecture is arm64 or x86_64.
Check the CPU architecture.
uname -m
aarch64 x86_64
Confirm if the CPU supports 64-bit.
lscpu
Check if the kernel supports it. Even if your CPU is 64-bit, the operating system might be 32-bit; run the following command to confirm:
getconf LONG_BIT
All three commands should output 64.
If the conditions are not met, you can choose to reinstall the operating system or change devices.
Install Manticore#
Taking a device with arm64 architecture and a Debian or Ubuntu operating system as an example, the installation process is as follows:
Create a folder in the home directory.
mkdir manticore && cd manticore
Download and install manticore-repo.noarch.deb, adding the Manticore Search software's APT repository so that it can be installed and updated via apt.
wget https://repo.manticoresearch.com/manticore-repo.noarch.deb
sudo dpkg -i manticore-repo.noarch.deb
Update the local APT package index.
sudo apt update
If an error occurs:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' as repository 'http://repo.manticoresearch.com/repository/ InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armhf'
It indicates that there are no packages for the armhf architecture.
Try using packages for the arm64 architecture.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture arm64
sudo apt update
Install the ARM64 architecture version of the manticore package.
sudo apt install manticore:arm64 manticore-extra:arm64
After successful installation, try querying the installed packages.
dpkg -l | grep manticore
sudo apt list --installed | grep manticore
Configuration files are saved in /etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf, please modify as needed.
After installation, the Manticore Search service will not start automatically. To start Manticore, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start manticore
To check the status of the Manticore service, run the following command:
sudo systemctl status manticore
To stop Manticore, run the following command:
sudo systemctl stop manticore
To enable Manticore to start at boot, run:
sudo systemctl enable manticore
The searchd process logs startup information in the systemd logs. If systemd logging is enabled, you can use the following command to view the logged information:
sudo journalctl -u manticore
References#
Official documentation https://manual.manticoresearch.com
After installation, please refer to the official documentation for configuration.
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