[clue-tech] Compiling PHP under FC5

[Collins Richey]

On 5/19/06, erik at ezolan.com <erik at ezolan.com> wrote:
>
> > yum list 'php*' to see all of the php packages.
>
> gah. Livna is getting 404s from all it's mirrors.
> To fix I had to:
> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
>
> which wouldn't install until I removed package "yum-fedorafaq-4-2005.11.29"
>
> I think this was the issue. None of the livna packages were showing up in
> yum. Yum extender didn't have checked as one of it's repositories so it
> wasn't giving me any errors.
>
> > You probably want:
> >
> > yum install php-mysql
> <snip>
> > yum install php-devel
>
> Installing php-mysql seems to have satisfied the requirements. I'll
> install php-devel later when I want to use sqlite.
>
> Thanks for the help! I was really stuck. :-)
>

It's been a whil since I worked with RH stuff, but the one thing I
remember from CentOS days: mixing Livna packages with anything else is
a recipe for disaster, or at the very least, frustration. Dag is a
much higher quality source of packages.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.