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Red Squirrel wrote: I'm trying to install something but I get this error:
* Horde will not run without gettext support. Compile php --with-gettext before continuing.

How in the world do I pull that off without screwing up anything? Is there a way to just "add" that module without actually recompiling it? I don't really have good luck when it comes to this sort of thing. I thought of just upgrading to php 5 but since I use my server for development I can't really use a version that's too new since I might end up making stuff that does not work on older versions.

So how do I compile php --with=gettext? Is reinstalling the only solution?

Red Squirrel wrote: Hmm that's what I was afraid to hear.  Since only way really is to format.  I could probably install it over the curent installation but I'm sure in the end time I'll run into problems by doing that, especially if I don't shut it off properly.  Do I just have to shut down apache to turn off php?  But thankfully in the phpinfo() it shows the configure string, so I don't have to worry about trying to figure out what I put, I can just copy and paste that, and I guess I just append --with-gettext to that string right?  Does the order matter?

Red Squirrel wrote: So before I do the format, is there maybe an easy way to uninstall php, instead of clean installing?  But I think I'll wait till my hard drive comes in so I can do an image of all data, I don't trust myself installing linux on a hard drive that has important data, since partitions in linux don't have names or drive letters, so I might pick the wrong one to format during installation.

Linux still needs to come up with a better way to manage installation of software though.  It's rediculous that it has to be this complicated.

closet geek wrote:

Red Squirrel wrote: So before I do the format, is there maybe an easy way to uninstall php, instead of clean installing?  But I think I'll wait till my hard drive comes in so I can do an image of all data, I don't trust myself installing linux on a hard drive that has important data, since partitions in linux don't have names or drive letters, so I might pick the wrong one to format during installation.

Linux still needs to come up with a better way to manage installation of software though.  It's rediculous that it has to be this complicated.

Quit worrying Red just configure PHP with those options

I've had to configure PHP a load of times for NH, it works sweetly everytime. My configure string atm:

'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--with-dom' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--enable-exif' '--with-swf=/usr/local/flash' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-gettext' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql' '--with-openssl' '--enable-discard-path' '--with-pear' '--with-pspell' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-wddx' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-zip' '--with-zlib'

be thankful I can almost guarantee you wont have to get as many things working as I do on a production server

You might be able to get away with not doing a full compile anyway try this:

export PHP_PREFIX="/usr"

$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize

./configure --with-gettext

No guarantee it'll work.

Were you worried about restarting apache? It's really painless man

service httpd restart

cg