• Debian

  • 9.0 (Stretch)
  • 10.0 (Buster)
  • 11.0 (Bullseye)

• Ubuntu

  • 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
  • 18.04 LTS (Bionic)
  • 20.04 LTS (Focal)
  • 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

• Mint

  • 19
  • 20

The easiest way to install Manticore in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint is by using our APT repository

Install the repository:

wget https://repo.manticoresearch.com/manticore-repo.noarch.deb
sudo dpkg -i manticore-repo.noarch.deb
sudo apt update

(install wget if it's not installed; install gnupg2 if apt-key fails).

Then install Manticore Search:

sudo apt install manticore manticore-columnar-lib

(you can skip manticore-columnar-lib - package for the Manticore Columnar Library, if you are sure you don't need it).

If you prefer "Nightly" (development) versions do:

wget https://repo.manticoresearch.com/manticore-dev-repo.noarch.deb
sudo dpkg -i manticore-dev-repo.noarch.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install manticore manticore-columnar-lib

You can also download individual .deb files from our site.

Manticore package depends on zlib and ssl libraries, nothing else is strictly required. However if you plan to use indexer to create indexes from external storages you'll need to install appropriate client libraries. To know what exactly libraries indexer requires run it and look at the top of it's output:

$ sudo -u manticore indexer
Manticore 3.5.4 13f8d08d@201211 release
Copyright (c) 2001-2016, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2016, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)
Copyright (c) 2017-2021, Manticore Software LTD (https://manticoresearch.com)

Built by gcc/clang v 5.4.0,

Built on Linux runner-0277ea0f-project-3858465-concurrent-0 4.19.78-coreos #1 SMP Mon Oct 14 22:56:39 -00 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Configured by CMake with these definitions: -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DDISTR_BUILD=xenial -DUSE_SSL=ON -DDL_UNIXODBC=1 -DUNIXODBC_LIB=libodbc.so.2 -DDL_EXPAT=1 -DEXPAT_LIB=libexpat.so.1 -DUSE_LIBICONV=1 -DDL_MYSQL=1 -DMYSQL_LIB=libmysqlclient.so.20 -DDL_PGSQL=1 -DPGSQL_LIB=libpq.so.5 -DLOCALDATADIR=/var/data -DFULL_SHARE_DIR=/usr/share/manticore -DUSE_ICU=1 -DUSE_BISON=ON -DUSE_FLEX=ON -DUSE_SYSLOG=1 -DWITH_EXPAT=1 -DWITH_ICONV=ON -DWITH_MYSQL=1 -DWITH_ODBC=ON -DWITH_POSTGRESQL=1 -DWITH_RE2=1 -DWITH_STEMMER=1 -DWITH_ZLIB=ON -DGALERA_SOVERSION=31 -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc/manticoresearch

Here you can see mentions of libodbc.so.2, libexpat.so.1, libmysqlclient.so.20, and libpq.so.5.

Below is a reference table with list of all the client libraries for different Debian/Ubuntu versions:

Distr	MySQL	PostgreSQL	XMLpipe	UnixODBC
Ubuntu Trusy	libmysqlclient.so.18	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.1
Ubuntu Xenial	libmysqlclient.so.20	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2
Ubuntu Bionic	libmysqlclient.so.20	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2
Ubuntu Focal	libmysqlclient.so.21	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2
Debian Jessie	libmysqlclient.so.18	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2
Debian Stretch	libmariadbclient.so.18	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2
Debian Buster	libmariadb.so.3	libpq.so.5	libexpat.so.1	libodbc.so.2

To find packages that provide the libraries you can use, for example apt-file:

apt-file find libmysqlclient.so.20
libmysqlclient20: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.20
libmysqlclient20: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.20.2.0
libmysqlclient20: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.20.3.6

Note that you only need libraries for the types of storages you're going to use. So if you plan to index only from mysql then you might need to install only the MySQL library (in the above case libmysqlclient20).

Finally install the needed packages:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient20 libodbc1 libpq5 libexpat1

If you aren't going to use indexer tool at all, you don't need to find and install any libraries.

To enable CJK tokenization support, the official packages contain binaries with embedded ICU library and include ICU data file. They are independent from any ICU runtime library which might be available on your system, and can't be upgraded.

The lemmatizer requires Python 3.9+. Make sure you have it installed and that it's configured with --enable-shared.

Here's how to install Python 3.9 and the Ukrainian lemmatizer on Debian and Ubuntu:

# install Manticore Search and UK lemmatizer from APT repository
cd ~
wget https://repo.manticoresearch.com/manticore-repo.noarch.deb
sudo dpkg -i manticore-repo.noarch.deb
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install manticore manticore-lemmatizer-uk

# install packages needed for building Python
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install wget build-essential libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev

# download, build and install Python 3.9
cd ~
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.4/Python-3.9.4.tgz
tar xzf Python-3.9.4.tgz
cd Python-3.9.4
./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-shared
sudo make -j8 altinstall

# update linker cache
sudo ldconfig

# install pymorphy2 and UK dictionary
sudo pip3.9 install pymorphy2[fast]
sudo pip3.9 install pymorphy2-dicts-uk

After you have all installed make sure you have the following in your Manticore Search configuration file (/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf by default):

common {
    plugin_dir = /usr/local/manticore/lib/
}

On MacOS Manticore can be installed in two ways:

Bottles are available for:

• MacOS Big Sur
• MacOS Catalina

On older versions of MacOS it will attempt to compile from sources automatically.

brew install manticoresoftware/manticore/manticoresearch

For indexing the additional dependencies that can be installed using brew are mysql@5.7, libpq, unixodbc.

Afterwards you can start Manticore as a brew service:

brew services start manticoresearch

The configuration is located at /usr/local/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf.

Download it from the website and unpack to a folder:

mkdir manticore
tar -zxvf manticore-3.6.0-210504-96d61d8bf-release-osx10.14.4-x86_64-main.tar.gz -C manticore
cd manticore
bin/searchd  -c manticore.conf

Manticore configuration file manticore.conf is located in the directory, unpacked from the tarball.

To install Manticore in Windows you need to download the zip archive and unpack it into a folder.

In the following example we'll assume we unpack the zip contents to folder C:\Manticore.

cd C:\Manticore
unzip manticore-4.2.0-211223-15e927b28-releasex64-main.zip

The zip comes with a sample configuration file in manticore.conf.in. The configuration contains a @CONFDIR@ string which needs to be replaced with your data directory location. It will be the root directory of data and log folders (first is used to store indexes, second for logs). The zip package also comes with these folders, so they will be available at the location where you unzipped the package. If you want to use a different location, the two folders must be created there.

To install the searchd (Manticore search server) as a Windows service run:

C:\Manticore\bin\searchd --install --config C:\Manticore\manticore.conf.in --servicename Manticore

Make sure to use the full path of the configuration file, otherwise searchd.exe will not be able to know its location when it's started as service.

After installation the service can be started from the Services snap-in of the Microsoft Management Console.

Once started you can access Manticore using the mysql command line interface:

mysql -P9306 -h127.0.0.1

Note that in most examples in this manual we use -h0, but in Windows you need to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 for the local host.