Installing Manticore on MacOS

On MacOS Manticore can be installed in two ways:

Via Homebrew package manager

Bottles are available for:

On older versions of MacOS it will attempt to compile from sources automatically.

brew install manticoresoftware/manticore/manticoresearch

For indexing the additional dependencies that can be installed using brew are mysql@5.7, libpq, unixodbc.

Afterwards you can start Manticore as a brew service:

brew services start manticoresearch

The configuration is located at /usr/local/etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf.

From tarball with binaries

Download it from the website and unpack to a folder:

mkdir manticore
tar -zxvf manticore-3.6.0-210504-96d61d8bf-release-osx10.14.4-x86_64-main.tar.gz -C manticore
cd manticore
bin/searchd  -c manticore.conf

Manticore configuration file manticore.conf is located in the directory, unpacked from the tarball.