I have been meaning to install ffmpeg as an extension to my PHP setup. So before I can install it, I need to phpize it. I installed php5-dev by sudo apt-get install php5-dev. But now when I run phpize I get the following error :
phpize
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module
The location of my php.ini is /usr/local/zend/etc/php.ini
From another online resource I tried this
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool m4
But all of them are already installed.
Locate config.m4 didn't return anything.
Any pointers here how I can get phpize and thus, ffmpeg up and running?
For recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu (Debian 9+ or Ubuntu 16.04+) install the php-dev dependency package, which will automatically install the correct version of php{x}-dev for your distribution:
sudo apt install php-dev
Older versions of Debian/Ubuntu:
For PHP 5, it's in the php5-dev package.
sudo apt-get install php5-dev
For PHP 7.x (from rahilwazir comment):
sudo apt-get install php7.x-dev
RHEL/CentOS/yum
yum install php-devel # see comments
For PHP7 Users
7.1
sudo apt install php7.1-dev
7.2
sudo apt install php7.2-dev
7.3
sudo apt install php7.3-dev
7.4
sudo apt install php7.4-dev
If not sure about your PHP version, simply run command php -v
Ohk.. I got it running by typing /usr/bin/phpize instead of only phpize.
Under Redhat Enterprise / CentOS, use yum to install the php-devel module:
yum install php-devel
For PHP 7, you need:
yum install php70-php-devel
Step - 1: If you are unsure about the php version installed,
then first run the following command in terminal
php -v
Output: the above command will output the php version installed on your machine, mine is 7.2
PHP 7.2.3-1ubuntu1 (cli) (built: Mar 14 2018 22:03:58) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.3-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Step 2: Then to install phpize run the following command, Since my php version is 7.2.3. i will replace it with 7.2, so the command will be,
sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev
Step 3: Done!
Alternate method(Optional):
To automatically install the phpize version based on the php version installed on your machine run the following command.
sudo apt-get install php-dev
This command will automatically detect the appropriate version of php installed and will install the matching phpize for the same.
Hmm... actually i dont know how this solved it? But the following steps solved it for me:
find / -name 'config.m4'
Now look if the config.m4 is anywhere in a folder of that stuff you want to phpize. Go to that folder and run phpize directly in there.
For ubuntu 14.04LTS with php 7, issue:
sudo apt-get install php-dev
Then install:
pecl install memcache
In Ubuntu 16.04, you can install phpize with the command
aptitude install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1
which is equivalent to
apt-get install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1
If you're having problems with phpize not found on CentOS7.x after you have installed the relevant devel tools for your version/s of PHP, this path finally worked for me:
For PHP 7.2.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/phpize
For PHP 7.3.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize
For PHP 7.4.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/usr/bin/phpize
Run this in your folder containing the downloaded PHP extension, for example in line 3 below:
Example based on installing the PHP v7.3.x Brotli Extension from https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli
git clone --recursive --depth=1 https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli.git
cd /php-ext-brotli
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/php-config
make
make test
Install from linux terminal
sudo apt-get install <php_version>-dev
Example :
sudo apt-get install php5-dev #For `php` version 5
sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev #For `php` version 7.0
Of course in PHP7.2
sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev
This might help someone on ubuntu. No promises.
sudo apt-get install libcurl3 php5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libmagic-dev
sudo apt-get install php-http make
sudo pecl install pecl_http
And adding "extension=http.so" to php.ini (Normally located at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
Then restart Apache (sudo service apache2 restart).
If in doubt, check your apache logs:
sudo su --
cd /var/log/apache2
tail -25 error.log
Is http.so starting or failing?
For instance, if you wanted to use the "phpize" command for PHP 5.6, you would use the full path:
Code:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/phpize
For ubuntu with Plesk installed run apt-get install plesk-php56-dev, for other versions just change XX in phpXX (without the dot)
Go to the downloaded folder and there you find config.m4. Open the terminal and run phpsize.
I had this exact problem on macOS in 2018.
For me, first running brew install php before sudo pecl install mongodb did the trick.
You didn't specify what operating system you're using, and 90% of the answers assume Ubuntu/Debian Linux because of the apt-get install autoconf automake libtool m4 command that you posted (and over half expect you to be running CPanel), so I'm giving you a slightly more generic solution which ought to work on any Un*x clone (including Microsoft's WSL!).
You will need at least a few prerequisites:
A working C/C++ compiler — GCC or clang being the most popular options these days.
A 'developer edition' of PHP, which some package managers call 'development headers'. In the case of aptitude, as shown on the other answers, you ought to be fine with just sudo apt install php-dev. Beware of the mentioned caveats: you might end up with a slightly more unstable version of PHP which might not be updated correctly with future versions.
These days (that's late 2021 for me!), for those running Ubuntu, and wishing to seriously tinker with PHP, the recommendation is to use Ondřej Surý's personal package archive for PHP. Ondřej keeps his PPA always up to date, sometimes within a few hours after release; he keeps up with the latest four Ubuntu distributions and all the currently supported PHP versions that haven't reached end-of-life status yet (sorry, PHP5 is considered completely obsolete and plagued with unpatched bugs and security issues, so it's not supported — for very good reasons!); and he provides a lot of PHP extensions, too. Sadly, ffmpeg-php is not one of them...
There is a good reason for the overall lack of support of ffmpeg-php. Allegedly, the original repository for that was hosted at Sourceforge but has been abandoned in 2007. The recommended package these days is PHP-FFMpeg which is constantly being updated, and ought to be easily installed using composer — get it before starting your compilation!
Alternatively, instead of relying on an external non-official PHP extension (albeit one that is both popular and updated regularly!), you ought to launch the ffmpeg binary using shell_exec(). This is the officially recommended approach, mostly because converting videos always takes a long time, and the authors of that recommendation suggest a simple architecture where the PHP script basically launches ffmpeg in the background, accepting batches of videos for processing. The page is a bit old, but the technique shown is sound.
I am using XAMPP on Linux mint and it is by default installed if your don't have
sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev
// or
sudo apt-get install php-dev
know more
I am using Ubuntu 17 with php 7.1 and am trying to install Laravel 5.5 but it is telling me to check the minimum requirements.
I can't install the recommended php extensions. I am using sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php but it appears the extension are not there and there is a mismatch from the repo
Repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu artful InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from '***** The main PPA for PHP (5.6, 7.0, 7.1) with many PECL extensions *****' to '***** The main PPA for supported PHP versions with many PECL extensions *****'
Your composer should say what extensions you need.
You also check doc https://laravel.com/docs/master#installation
PHP >= 7.0.0
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension
sudo apt-get install curl php-curl php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-gettext
Install PHP 7.1 on Ubuntu
Use the following set of commands to add PPA for PHP 7 in your Ubuntu system and install it.
> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install -y php7.1
Now use the following command to check installed php version on your system.
> php -v
Install PHP 7 Modules/Extensions
Find all the available PHP 7 modules using the following command:
> sudo apt-cache search php7-*
Install required PHP extensions using the following command
> sudo apt-get install <extension-name>
You can install multiple extensions using the same command. Separate extension names by a space.
For example
> sudo apt-get install php7.1-xml php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-zip
Laravel 5.5 System Requirements Checker
To verify system requirements for Laravel 5.5 you can then use the following simple app.
https://github.com/mitesh1409/laravel-system-requirements-checker
Do git clone of this repo inside your server's root directory and then execute it.
For example using Apache server on Ubuntu 16.04, do git clone of this repo inside "var/www/html". It will create an app folder named "laravel-system-requirements-checker". Now you can run this using the url "http://localhost/laravel-system-requirements-checker/".
I hope this will help everyone starting development on Laravel 5.5.
Thanks.
Laravel-Requirement-Checker from browser
https://github.com/hosamalzagh/Laravel-Requirement-Checker
How can one install imap for php in ubuntu for php7.1 preferably in the terminal.
There's some info on this on the php.net manual but it's a bit dated.
It talks about the c-client library and restarting apache afterwards etc
I'm still pretty new with linux
As long as it is part of the php repo you are using, this will be the package you are looking for.
sudo apt install php7.1-imap
You can install IMAP by following ways.
Step1: sudo apt-get install php7.1-imap
Step2: sudo phpenmod imap
Step3: php -m. Find out imap module
Step4: Run below command to confirm imap is install.
1. php -i | grep -i imap
2. dpkg -l | grep php7.1-imap
Step5: check phpinfo()
check imap is showing or not.
After enabling a module, you have to restart your pc. If a module is still not displayed in phpinfo(), please check on the next day.
Today I was upgrading PHP 5.5 on my LEMP stack to version 5.5.35. After upgrading I received an on-screen message that the repo ppa:ondrej/php5 is deprecated and if I want to continue receiving php updates I should move onto ppa:ondrej/php which now includes PHP 5.5, PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 in one place. Previously these versions were in different repos.
I followed Ondřej's advice and I run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
And then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade --show-upgraded
All went fine, except that two packages were held back: php-pear and pkg-php-tools. That of course happens from time to time when package dependencies change so I run:
sudo apt-get install php-pear pkg-php-tools
Then, I got a message that additionaly the following packages will be installed:
php-cli php-common php-xml php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml
Immediately I felt that something is wrong here. Why the hell I need PHP 7.0 packages when I'm running PHP 5.5? However I went with option YES and apparently everything went fine. The server is running, no errors or confilcts that I'm aware of. Then I was curious and I checked what version of PHP am I running?
php -v
The output was:
PHP 7.0.6-1+donate.sury.org~trusty...
What the hell happened here? How did I ended up installing PHP 7.0 and why the server/site isn't crashing? Since I use nginx with php-fpm, by examining the nginx.conf I can clearly see that nginx is pointing to php5-fpm.sock so I definitely run php5-fpm here. Plus the site is up, and there are no PHP errors in the log.
I also went and I've uploaded a phpinfo file. The file shows I'm using PHP 5.5.35. So there are two conflicting messages where command via ssh shows that the PHP version is 7.0.6, while the phpinfo file shows that the server is using PHP 5.5.35.
So I run:
sudo apt-get remove php7.0-common
All previously added php7.0 packages were removed and also those two that were initially being held back.
Now, after checking the PHP version via SSH it showed correctly 5.5.35. While all this was happening the server had no trouble whatsoever. The status at this moment is that I don't have php-pear and pkg-php-tools packages, but if I try to install them all those php7.0 packages will have to be installed too.
I've also examined /etc/php5 and /etc/php folders. In this second folder there is 7.0 folder where cli and mods-available folders with mods inside reside.
Can someone explain to me what is happening here and what should I do? Are php5 and php7.0 simultaneously running on the server? Do I need those two packages that were held back in LEMP + Wordpress stack?
php-pear and pkg-php-tools must depend on PHP CLI for default PHP version and that's PHP 7.0. Installing php-cli pulls php7.0-cli that will install /usr/bin/php7.0 and registers it as alternative with highest (70) priority to provide /usr/bin/php.
Installing PHP CLI binary is mostly harmless unless you need to run PHP scripts locally using command line. I could recommend two approaches:
Rewriting those scripts to specify required version, e.g. changing php <script> to php5.6 <script>, or
Use update-alternatives to switch /usr/bin/php to your desired PHP version: a) switch to specific version update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php5.6 or b) update-alternatives --config php configure the version by hand
More thorough version of the migration guide is located in DEB.SURY.ORG Wiki.
To use the new PHP FPM packages, you need to install:
sudo apt-get install php5.5-fpm # for PHP 5.5
sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm # for PHP 5.6
sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm # for PHP 7.0
and adjust the socket accordingly, look into default FPM configuration:
sudo editor /etc/php/X.Y/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
for the socket location (it's /run/php/phpX.Y-fpm.sock by default).
I want to install the v8js extension for PHP5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 but can't make it working.
When I try to install the v8js extension version 0.2.0 (latest) with PECL, I have this message:
configure: error: libv8 must be version 3.24.6 or greater
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/v8js/configure --with-v8js' failed
If I try to install an old version, I have a compilation error. This message is very similar to my issue: Install v8js for php on ubuntu
How can I fix this issue?
EDIT: I couldn't install it on Ubuntu 14.04 with PHP5.5, even with a PHP downgrade with PHPbrew to PHP 5.4. However, using Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP 5.4 works great. I didn't try the downgrade from PHP 5.5 to 5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.
in case you can't find libv8-dev or libv8-dbg, you can find the correct version by run command
~$ apt-cache search libv8
libv8-3.14-dbg - V8 JavaScript engine - debugging symbols
libv8-3.14-dev - V8 JavaScript engine - development files for 3.14 branch
libv8-3.14.5 - V8 JavaScript engine - runtime library
libv8-dev - V8 JavaScript engine - development files for latest branch
then you can run
~$ sudo apt-get install libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14-dbg g++ cpp
then you can try to install v8js via pecl by running
~$ sudo pecl install v8js-0.2.0
if that command return error like this
configure: error: libv8 must be version 3.24.6 or greater
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/v8js/configure --with-v8js' failed
you can try to install v8js-0.1.3 instead by running
~$ sudo pecl install v8js-0.1.3
then edit your php.ini to add v8js extension
~$ echo "extension=v8js.so" >> /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Open your terminal/console
sudo apt-get install libv8-dev libv8-dbg g++ cpp
Make an update sudo apt-get update
Try sudo pecl install v8js-0.2.0 (or other version i.e.: sudo pecl install v8js-0.1.3)
Edit your php.ini (Check: Where is my php.ini file?) file by adding: extension=v8js.so.
Restart server
If it the extension still doesn't work, try to edit /etc/php5/conf.d/v8js.ini and add extension=v8js.so and restart server again.
Hope this helps.
These other answers work well and I used v8js-0.1.3 for the past 1.5 years but after needing to upgrade to PHP 7 I needed a better solution as v0.1.3 doesn't compile with PHP 7 (something to do with php_smart_str being renamed to php_smart_string).
After a couple hours of frustrating research and compiling libv8 myself, I didn't want to have to go through this whole process on every server I provisioned.
Anyway, I found this site which points you to a launchpad PPA site that provides a couple different ubuntu packages with the 5.1 and 5.2 libv8 libraries.
I ran these commands (please don't add repositories of 3rd party devs without understanding the risks).
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pinepain/libv8-5.2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libv8-5.2-dev
sudo pecl install v8js-1.1.0
(Thanks #JeyKeu for suggesting to add "apt-get update" to these commands)
I couldn't get v8js-1.3.0 or 1.2.0 to build, but 1.1.0 worked well. I checked the changelog and found that the latest updates are not necessary in my circumstance anyway.