PyLucene on Debian Etch

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Edgarest currently uses a search engine written from scratch, but I've been playing around with Lucene and specifically with PyLucene. Edgarest uses a bare installation of Debian Etch, so it took a little work to get it up and running. Here are the steps, starting from the base Debian Etch net install:

Add "deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free" to /etc/apt/sources.list
```
sudo apt-get update
```

sudo apt-get install build-essential sun-java6-jdk ant subversion python-dev

sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun

wget http://downloads.osafoundation.org/PyLucene/jcc/PyLucene-2.4.0-1-src-jcc.tar.gz
tar -xzvf PyLucene-2.4.0-1-src-jcc.tar.gz

(note, you need to make sure your java version matches the setup.py files)

```
cd PyLucene-2.4.0-1
```
```
python setup.py build
```
```
sudo python setup.py install
```
```
cd ..
```
Use your editor to edit Makefile, and uncomment Ubuntu 6.06 (even though it says Java 5)
```
make
```
```
sudo make install
```

You probably want to remove the backports line from your /etc/apt/sources.list since if you don't you'll get newer packages by default, when that might not be what you want for stability reasons.