how to check sphinx version?

I install a sphinx search engine a couple months ago, as time pass, I don't remember that sphinx version I installed.

how to check my system sphinx version?

Solution 1:

May be just run the command searchd without any parameter

It shows following when I just tried

Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
Copyright (c) 2001-20009, Andrew Aksyonoff

....

Solution 2:

Run searchd with '--help' parameter which show the searchd version:

searchd --help
Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff

Solution 3:

just type in terminal:

sphinx-build --version

Solution 4:

Here are few ways to do it from python itself:

$ python -c 'import sphinx; print sphinx.__version__'
'1.1.3'

The same of above, with a single instruction variant:

$ python -c 'print __import__("sphinx").__version__'
'1.1.3'

Or, using pkg_resources:

$ python -c 'import pkg_resources; print pkg_resources.require("sphinx")[0].version'
'1.1.3'

The same of above, with a single instruction variant:

$ python -c 'print __import__("pkg_resources").require("sphinx")[0].version'
'1.1.3'

Solution 5:

You can also just connect with the MySQL client.

% mysql --host=sphinx.example.com --port=9306 --protocol=tcp
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 2.2.7-id64-release (r4883)

There you have the server version. The --protocol=tcp may be needed if the host is localhost.