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How to Install the Lucene Search Engine using Solr

I’m going to go through the steps necessary to install and start using Solr. I’ve always been interested in trying out Lucene, but I never felt like dealing with writing my own wrapper around the classes. Solr simplifies this by creating a fully working search engine as a web service.

Let’s get started. You’ll need to check to see if Java is up to date. Run the below to find out.