Installing riaksearch on OS X Lion (10.7)

I’ve spent the day trying to install erlang on OS Lion and also to install Riak Search - quite frustrating to say the least.

The installation instructions on the basho site don’t seem to work as they link to a tar ball that doesn’t seem to exist.

Here’s how I managed to install RiakSearch on OS Lion:

$ curl -O http://downloads.basho.com/riak-search/riak-search-0.14/riak_search-0.14.0-osx-i386.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf riak_search-0.14.0-osx-i386.tar.gz

The tar ball is precompiled so you should be able to test if it worked simply by typing:

$ riak_search-0.14.0-osx-i386/bin/riaksearch start

Note – that the time of writing, the latest version is 0.14.0. You can check for the latest version by looking in the riak downloads directory

Hope that helps.

Installing riaksearch on OS X Lion (10.7)