Re: Quick test of packaging?

Elizabeth/Bob - Thanks for the suggestion and the product. Worked like a charm. We need this on the resources page.... along with the debian installers. Would be nice. thanks, Madeleine D. Elizabeth M Smith wrote:

Madeleine D. wrote:

I just finished setting up a Kubuntu 7.10 box, and decided I'd give this a shot. My Linux is pretty basic, but we're getting more requests from our clients that were previously early WinX to go to Linux, instead of disastros like XP and Vista. So this seemed like a good time to tryout the installation process. I tried to follow the install instructions for PHP in the PHP-Gtk2 manual, but I couldn't make it past the PHP part. Multiple errors with gcc, automake, etc. So I switched to Synaptic and installed PHP 5.2.3, with the mysql extensions. That went fine. Then I tried to run a buildconf on the file you gave, but it's a no go. AFAICT, it's unhappy about the location for phpize. Out of time and patience by now, even though I know it's probably something simple, I have to give up. I totally realize that this is probably my lack of expertise and time. And eventually, I'll find the answers and update the install page. But it does seem that in terms of an average user trying to make it work on an 'out of the box' distribution install, I'd say - not. Maybe we can get Ubuntu to add it to their repositories.... FWIW, Madeleine D.

I know bob had an installer working on ubuntu flavors - might want to make something like that available for the linux newcomers. http://oops.opsat.net/doc/gtk/unix-installer.html (I know it works on ubuntu - does kubuntu have the needed gtk libs? Thought that was all qt, kde based)