Posted by Michael Fesser on 07/17/07 13:19

..oO(Pugi!)

>[...] I would like to keep on using SL, the apache
>and mysql that comes with it are ok too, but what is the best means to
>install a more recent version of PHP (5.2.1 or maybe even the 5.2.3)
>and how do you update/maintain it ? With PHP I am not only referring
>to the php module, but also to php-soap, php-pear, php-mbstring, php-
>mcrypt, php-mysql, php-cli, php-pdo, ...

Compile from sources? As long as all required header files for external
libs are available, it's usually just the typical *nix "rule of three":

../configure [--options]
make
make install

Micha

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