Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/11/07 14:15

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Trying to install a PECL extension to a couple of PHP5 Debian setups.
>>>
>>> Documentation says I run pecl, or pear..depending how I look - to
>>> install
>>>
>>> No pecl or pear command on my system
>>>
>>> I love the instructions that say 'to go faster, press the
>>> accelerator' when actually just starting the engine would be an
>>> achievement..
>>>
>>> Anyone care o give a brief overview of how this stiff works. Trolls
>>> stay abed please.;-)
>>
>> Have you installed the php-pear package?
>>
> Ok..dunno why but this post took a day to turn up..
>
> I finally DID get it working, but what a mess it all was.
>
> Pear package needed
> Then pslib: That needed XML::parser and make
> That needed some other libraries and dev packages to build.
>
> Spent about 4 hours googling for each 'cannot find expat.h' etc. type
> error.
>
> Nightmare. One dependency after another. Fine if you are a developer and
> used to all this stuff, less fine if all you wanted was a PHP library.
>
> Still it all seems happy enough now. Have yet to try it out, but see no
> reason it won't work.
>
> All just to send postscript reports to a printable file. Ahh..
>

Yep, Perl's CPAN is a lot better in that respect - it tells you which
you need for prereqs (if the package is set up properly, that is).

I wish there were a tool for PHP which worked as well.


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