Joe, To add to the excellently short and succinct answer from Randall, I'll just say, unless you specifically have a need to build from source (you are using a "source" distribution, a.la Linux From Scratch, or you have some patches that enable features in PHP which are non-standard), you are probably much better off installing PHP (and MySQL and Apache) from pre-compiled (also called binary) packages, rather than trying to compile it from source. From what I understand, you are going to "use" PHP, but don't really have a need to "build" the PHP system from source. Perhaps you are following a HOWTO which is not so appropriate.
You were runing ubuntu server already, correct? but 9.10 version? I googled for "installing php5 on ubuntu server" and found this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP Based on that... you would only need to install using the task named lamp-server, like this: sudo tasksel install lamp-server DK On 6/2/2010, "Randall Whitman" <909li...@whizman.com> wrote: >0. You'll probably get better answers if you tell us OS/distro version. > Short of requirements otherwise, I'd start with: >1. Install ubuntu-10.04-server. >2. sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql > (i got that list by: dpkg --get-selections | grep php ) > >Randall >http://whizman.com/ >_______________________________________________ >LinuxUsers mailing list >LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
