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I'm running the latest debian as OS.

I installed Sphinx using

apt-get install sphinxsearch

However, I need to communicate with sphinx trough PHP. In order to do so I downloaded the latest Sphinx version to obtain the phpapi.

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.0.5-release.tar.gz

When I try to perform a query I get an error about versions.

Query failed: searchd error: client version is higher than daemon version (client is v.1.25, daemon is v.1.22)

Apperently apt-get doesn't install the latest version. Doing an OS update and upgrade does not solve this either.

So I assume I have to update my sphinx installation from the downloaded source. Can I simply compile and install the source without losing data?

Or do you guys have another suggestion?

Pim Reijersen
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  • Are you using latest debian or latest stable debian? You can always try downloading 2.04 version of the phpapi? –  Sep 15 '12 at 12:17
  • Latest stable version of debian. I can't find the previous version, and I think I prefer updating sphinx. – Pim Reijersen Sep 15 '12 at 12:46
  • You can have a look at testing and sid packages but they are "only" 2.0.4 –  Sep 15 '12 at 12:53

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Try uninstalling the default version of Sphinx, and using the latest Ubuntu/Debian package from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/release/ in order to take advantage of the latest version of the server.

Terence Johnson
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  • could you give more specific instructions on how to properly uninstall sphinx without data loss? – Pim Reijersen Sep 15 '12 at 12:47
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    Make filesystem and mysql backup before uninstalling. When you don't specify --purge during apt-get remove, good packages ask if they should keep the data, but I wouldn't rely on this. –  Sep 15 '12 at 12:51