Re: Has anyone actually installed PHP4 from RPMs?

I've had lots of fun doing this sort of thing. Use a package manager such a kpackage or rpmdrake (erm sorry, i use mandrake) then goto http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ to find many rpms. get the latest build for your os or the source. jan-erik TryPhil Latio wrote: > I'm not a Linux Guru but have successfully installed PHP4 from source so > it's compiled with MySQL. My webserver works fine and I am happy but I set > myself the task of getting the same configuration through installing RPMs. > > Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessfull in trying to install PHP4 from RPMs > on Redhat 7.1. I am using the GnoRPM package and both MySQL and Apache > installed reasonably smoothly but when it came to PHP4, I just kept finding > I needed so many dependancies that it's become a joke. > > Everytime I download and installed one, it then asks for 2-4 more which in > turn ask for 2-4 of the dependancy of the dependancy. > > I am not familiar with the command-line approach to installing RPMs which > might be the way to go but if anyone out there has installed PHP4 using > either method, I would love to know how they did it. > > Cheers > > Phil > > -- > PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-install-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-install-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net