mediawiki & sphinx: libexpat not found

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mediawiki & sphinx: libexpat not found

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[PROBLEM]
While compiling Sphinx (Free open-source SQL full-text search engine) in order to hopefully improve MediaWiki's search quality, ./configure gave me this error:
checking for libexpat... not found
configure: WARNING: xmlpipe2 will NOT be available
Sphinx version: 0.9.8rc2
OS: Ubuntu Server 6.06.1

[SOLUTION]
Installing these packages fixed the libexpat problem:
libexpat1
libexpat-dev

So, simply run:

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apt-get install libexpat1 libexpat-dev
and then re-run ./configure.
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