How to fix PHP installation when xml2-config is missing?
I am fairly new to Linux (just getting set up using the Mint 16 distro), and I got everything working correctly with my Apache 2.4.9 with MySQL and PHP5.5, but I am using this for local Web development, and my host only has PHP5.3 installed. In order to make sure I don't use features that won't work in production, I want to install the older version instead of 5.5.
I downloaded the PHP-5.3.28 source tarball, but when I ran the configure script, it says:
configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.Executing dpkg -l *xml* returns:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===============================-====================-====================-===================================================================
un docbk-xml <none> (no description available)
ii docbook-xml 4.5-7.2 all standard XML documentation system for software and systems
un liblouisxml-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil 2.10.8.1-5ubuntu2 all Mono System.Xml.Linq library (for CLI 4.0)
ii libmono-system-xml4.0-cil 2.10.8.1-5ubuntu2 all Mono System.Xml library (for CLI 4.0)
ii libqt4-xml:amd64 4:4.8.4+dfsg-0ubuntu amd64 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqt4-xmlpatterns:amd64 4:4.8.4+dfsg-0ubuntu amd64 Qt 4 XML patterns module
ii libqt5xml5:amd64 5.0.2+dfsg1-7ubuntu1 amd64 Qt 5 XML module
un libxml-parser-lite-tree-perl <none> (no description available)
un libxml-simple-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libxml2:amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2 amd64 GNOME XML library
un libxml2-utils <none> (no description available)
ii python-libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2 amd64 Python bindings for the GNOME XML library
ii python-lxml 3.2.0-1 amd64 pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries
un python-lxml-dbg <none> (no description available)
un python2.3-lxml <none> (no description available)
un python2.4-lxml <none> (no description available)
un python2.7-libxml2 <none> (no description available)
un python2.7-lxml <none> (no description available)
ii python3-lxml 3.2.0-1 amd64 pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries
un python3-lxml-dbg <none> (no description available)
un python3.3-lxml <none> (no description available)
ii xml-core 0.13+nmu2 all XML infrastructure and XML catalog file supportAs you can see, libxml2:amd64 (I have a 64-bit system) is installed.
Could you direct me as to 1. what is wrong that it isn't recognizing it/finding the needed config file and 2. Whether proceeding with a make/make install of this standalone package will work without breaking the php functionality.
I had some trouble getting it set up this far (mainly because I'm in a steep learning curve for Linux right now), and I really don't want to have to go through that again, so I would rather leave it at 5.5 if it is too risky. :)
1 Answer
All you need to do is to install package libxml2-dev via:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-devSee: How to fix error with xml2-config not found when installing PHP from sources?
In case of problems, update the list first by:
sudo apt-get update
