Re: random observations on online PHP manual

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: ===== "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> ===== i don't see needing any more than the above. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================