Installing Solr #

It is advised to use the latest Solr version. At the time of writing, this is version 8.3.0.

In this guide, it’s assumed you are running on a Linux-based host.

Requirements #

Java #

Debian based distributions #

sudo apt install default-jre

Debian Jessie #

Debian Jessie needs backports to get Java 8 working:

echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre

If you run in to trouble updating, add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf:

Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";

Installation #

Taken from https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_7/taking-solr-to-production.html

Update to match the required version. You can find the latest version here

wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/solr/8.3.1/solr-8.3.1.tgz # find your local URL manually
tar xvf solr-8.3.1.tgz solr-8.3.1/bin/install_solr_service.sh --strip-components=2
sudo bash ./install_solr_service.sh solr-8.3.1.tgz

Be sure to download the tgz, not the src.tgz file.

This will install Solr 8.x as a service on your host machine

Vagrant machines #

See Known issues for known issues with permissions