I have downloaded xapian-core and xapian-bindings and installed them via the following commands
./configure --prefix=/path/to/virtualenv
./configure --prefix=/path/to/virtualenv --with-python
pip install django-haystack xapian-haystack
So far I have the search working with whole word matching but cannot figure out how to enable partial word matching. I even tried with ngram fields and still no luck. I have tried searching on google and cannot find any clear instructions so hopefully someone here can help me out.