On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > * not sure if this is covered further into the manual than i've
> > read so far, but i learned quickly that on some versions of linux
> > (in my case, fedora), a *lot* of the PHP modules and extensions
> > have been packages as yum-installable packages. a lot of the PEAR
> > packages as well. i'm wondering if that's worth mentioning fairly
> > early on for readers running particular linux distros.
>
> A section within install/ that details the situation with linux
> distributions would probably be useful, as long as it's written to
> not require frequent updates. There is a section specific to Debian
> but I don't think every distro needs one... thoughts on making it
> generic?
i don't think it requires much, maybe something as simple as:
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"a number of linux distributions have already pre-built a large
number of PHP, PEAR and PECL packages that are available through their
standard repositories. for instance, on fedora linux (and other
distros that are "yum" based), it's a simple matter to search for
relevant packages, using one or more of:
# yum search php
# yum search pear
# yum search pecl
then install the packages you want with
# yum install <list of desired packages>
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i don't see needing any more than the above.
rday
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