note 60526 deleted from ref.tidy by nlopess

Note Submitter: dave at egressive dot com ---- I needed to install tidy support on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 (with various current php5-*-5.0.5-2ubuntu1.1 and apache2 packages already installed, including php-pear), and after much scratching around finally figured out I could it like this: 1. $ sudo aptitude install php5-dev tidy libtidy0 libtidy-dev 2. $ pear install tidy 3. select the "[automatic detection]" option when prompted for the location of the libtidy install directory 4. subsequently edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and/or /etc/php5/cli/php.ini depending on whether you want tidy to work with both the apache-based interpreter (remember to restart apache2 to activate the change) or the command line version or both to include the following line at the *bottom* of the file: --- extension=tidy.so --- Note - if you decide to leave any comments in the php.ini files to describe what you've done (recommended), remember that the comment character is ";" not "#" (that one bit me :) ) 5. confirm that tidy support is installed either by - for the apache version - creating a file with <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it within your web document root (and then cruise to it with your browser and do a search on "tidy"), or - for the cli version - with $ php -i | grep tidy Hope that helps!