Hello Ronald,
If you're still very new to gentoo, it would be worth your time to read up a bit on how
gentoo does things. It's not quite like any other distro. :-)
Here's the section of the handbook on portage, use flags, etc.:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1
And here's a link to a shorter unofficial explanation of the basics of the
emerge command:
http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Gentoo:emerge
Also, the man pages for emerge, make.conf are pretty thorough.
One thing that it is very important to point out to you is that gentoo has recently
switched from the old dev-php/php ebuild to a new dev-lang/php ebuild that allows one to
install php and mod-php in one emerge (among other benefits). So, you should definitely be
using dev-lang/php.
Also, that dev-lang/php ebuild will go straight to php-5.* unless you tell it to stick
with 4.*. You do that by putting an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask (you might need to
create that file) like this ">=dev-lang/php-5". That means "mask anything greater than or
equal to php-5".
If you have any problems, definitely post them here!
b
Ronald Vazquez wrote:
Hello:
I am having a bit of trouble installing Apache-2.0.XX with PHP-4.X on
our Gentoo server using the emerge system. I have done multiple times
(from source) on Red hat, SuSE, Slackware, and others but have never
used the emerge functionality. I guess part of the problem is that I am
not yet familiar with the options to be used with the emerge system.
Could some one please guide me to a good source of documentation or
HowTo detailing the Apache/PHP/MySQL setup on Gentoo Linux? Perhaps a
Gentoo/Apache/PHP/MySQL for dummies. ;-) I am very excited about using
Gentoo and perhaps making it my main OS after using Slackware for 15 years.
Thanks in advance,
Ronald Vazquez
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