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First, you need to add Sphinx Search repository into your system and update the package list

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:builds/sphinxsearch-rel22
    sudo apt-get update

Next, you can install sphinx search by the following command:

    sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

To check whether sphinx search has been properly installed, type 

    searchd

Into your console, the outcome should look like the below

    Sphinx 2.2.11-id64-release (95ae9a6)
     Copyright (c) 2001-2016, Andrew Aksyonoff
     Copyright (c) 2008-2016, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

Finally, you need to go to Magento's root folder and run the following commands to install additional libraries

    composer require neutron/sphinxsearch-api

    composer require foolz/sphinxql-query-builder

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