[zargath]

anybody can recommend a good way to get startet with Solr ?

[simonw]

If you're using Django, Haystack makes it trivially easy to set up a Solr index against your existing Django models.

http://haystacksearch.org/

[riffraff]

in a similar vein, if using ruby/rails Sunspot(sunspot_rails)[1] is awesome. http://sunspot.github.com/

[va_coder]

cd examples

java -jar start.jar

docs: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/