As you may have been frustrated by, Mahout 0.5 was build with Lucene 3.1 dependencies. How on earth can we use Lucene 3.4 then? My SOLR is 3.4, I want to use its index to play with Mahout.

Fear not. Just download mahout 0.5, both source and binaries. Extract them, it will reside on the same folder i.e: mahout-distribution-0.5. Now, open up that pom.xml. Find lucene and replace 3.1.0 with 3.4.0. I reckon there are only 4 of them. The do mvn install. You may want to skip tests with: mvn -DskipTests=true install.

Once done, do: export MAHOUT_CORE=1

Run mahout from mahout-distribution-0.5/bin folder.

I don’t get index incompatibility anymore. But, I keep getting not enough term vector on document. Even I’ve set the schema.xml dan reindex my docs.

Will write more once I pass it.