Install on Debian GNU/Linux

This document describes how to install PGroonga on Debian GNU/Linux.

Supported versions

Here are supported Debian GNU/Linux versions:

How to install on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm

You can use the following instruction to install PGroonga on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm.

Install groonga-apt-source package:

$ sudo apt install -y -V ca-certificates lsb-release wget
$ wget https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow/$(lsb_release --id --short | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')/apache-arrow-apt-source-latest-$(lsb_release --codename --short).deb
$ sudo apt install -y -V ./apache-arrow-apt-source-latest-$(lsb_release --codename --short).deb
$ wget https://packages.groonga.org/debian/groonga-apt-source-latest-$(lsb_release --codename --short).deb
$ sudo apt install -y -V ./groonga-apt-source-latest-$(lsb_release --codename --short).deb
$ sudo apt update

If you want to use the PostgreSQL packages provided by PostgreSQL, you need to add the APT repository by PostgreSQL:

$ echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release --codename --short)-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
$ wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Install postgresql-*-pgdg-pgroonga package:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install -y -V postgresql-17-pgdg-pgroonga
Or
$ sudo apt install -y -V postgresql-16-pgdg-pgroonga
Or
$ sudo apt install -y -V postgresql-15-pgdg-pgroonga
Or
$ sudo apt install -y -V postgresql-14-pgdg-pgroonga
Or
$ sudo apt install -y -V postgresql-13-pgdg-pgroonga

If you want to use MeCab based tokenizer, you also need to install groonga-tokenizer-mecab package:

$ sudo apt install -y -V groonga-tokenizer-mecab

Create a database:

$ sudo -u postgres -H psql --command 'CREATE DATABASE pgroonga_test'

(Normally, you should create a user for pgroonga_test database and use the user. See GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA pgroonga for details.)

Connect to the created database and execute CREATE EXTENSION pgroonga:

$ sudo -u postgres -H psql -d pgroonga_test --command 'CREATE EXTENSION pgroonga'

That's all!

Try tutorial. You can understand more about PGroonga.