How To – Installing Swish-e v2.4.5

Background Knowledge


The installation of Swish-e v2.4.5 is being installed on a system with OpenBSD v3.7 i386 and Perl v5.8.6 using BASH as the command prompt interrupter.

What is Swish-e?


As quotes by Swish-e.org…

“Swish-e is a fast, flexible, and free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files. Swish-e is ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller. Using the GNOME™ libxml2 parser and a collection of filters, Swish-e can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft® Word/PowerPoint/Excel and just about any file that can be converted to XML or HTML text. Swish-e is also often used to supplement databases like the MySQL® DBMS for very fast full-text searching. Check out the full list of features.”

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