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[Eric Rank]

Hi Brian,

I had some trouble building and installing PHP on debian maybe a month and a
half ago. I'm fairly new to debian as well (and linux too for that matter),
but its starting to warm up on me. Eventually, I did get php to build and
install from the source. However, I built it with a new build of apache2
(also from source) and I think this is how it worked:

When building apache2 I had to make sure to use the debian installed libtool
(/usr/bin/libtool), not the one that came with the new apache2. This was
something I had to do in the configuration of the build of apache2. After
that, the build and install went just fine. Although, I did find that I had
to do a LOT of library installations in order to get the features from php
that I wanted. Woody is quite stable, but has a bunch of older libs that the
current PHP needed... That was the difficult solution.

Here's the easy one:

put this line in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This site has a package of
the current version of PHP.

deb http://debian.moolfreet.com ./

then do an
# apt-get upgrade

I think that's all you need to do. Restart apache and you should be set.
But keep in mind this advice is coming from a total linux nooobee. It worked
for me though. This let me upgrade to PHP 4.3.4 from the 4.1 that installed
with the general stable install about a week and a half ago.

Check out aptget.org for more non-standard packages you might want.

Eric Rank




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bpang at bpang.com>
To: <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] php install, libphp4.so?


> I'm having some trouble getting php to install properly on a new system
> (debian installed via knoppix).
> This is my first forray into the debian world (former RH user).
>
> Using current stable releases of httpd and php and installing as indicated
> in the manual
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php
> with a few extra configure options...
> full configure statement:
> ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-axps=/www/bin/apxs
> --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib-dir
> --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib --with-t1lib --enable-ftp
> --enable-exif
>
> It's not putting libphp4.so in /www/libexec or anywhere for that matter.
>
> So I can't update httpd.conf to AddModule... :(
>
> ideas? am I missing something?
> this worked on a RH system just a few weeks ago
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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