If you need to install PHP PDO extensions on Debian Lenny, its very
simple. This is what I did to get it done:
sudo aptitude install php5 php5-dev php5-cli libmysqlclient15-dev
Then use pecl to get PDO:
sudo pecl install pdo
sudo pecl install pdo_mysql /* in case you want pdo mysql extension */
update: I found out that PDO and mysqli drivers conflicted on my system and I ended up with none. To fix this, do pecl install mysql and then add extension=mysql.so on your php.ini like indicated below. This enables pdo and mysql driver, but I couldn’t get msyqli driver back on.
Then you have to edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and add:
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
Use the second line only if you installed pdo_mysql.
Restart your web server with:
sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 restart
And that’s it. Enjoy your PDO extensions on Debian Lenny.
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Thanks for that hint but I found out that pdo.so and pdo_mysql.so are available in the lenny packages php-common and php5-mysql. – I think it’s easier to install and update the core packages than using pecl. sofar|sokai
damn …the package name for pdo.so is not “php-common” but php5-common! sry
You also need package libmysqlclient-dev if you want to install with pecl: apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
but much easier is to install as sokai pointed.
Hi, I had problem in Debian Lenny saying “pecl.php.net is using a unsupported protocal – This should never happen. install failed”
The solution is to delete /usr/share/php/.channels directory and run “pecl update-channels”