Posted by Larry Anderson on 06/13/05 06:23

Geoff Blake wrote:

> I am trying to install a LAMP system and have so far installed Linux,
> Apache, MySQL all of which appear to be working. The instructions I have
> to install PHP include the following line
> ./configure --with-apxs= PathToFile/apxs -- with-mysql
>
> What is apxs?
>
> I have searched my system and dont appear to have any files by that
> name.( find -iname apxs*) - I assume it should be installed with apache.
> Can I install it seperately?

Which linux are you installing most packages has PHP in it already. If you
can get back to the installer through your system configuration (in Suse
it's YaST and I think in Mandrake it is Install Packages) you should be ale
to install the PHP libraries (and MySQL too) and configure in one fell
swoop.
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