Install Configurations (FC4) for future releases...

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Panama Jack wrote:

> You can install MySql bu the problem is php is preconfigured with MySql 
> support turned off.  You basically have to download the php package and the 
> apache2 package and reinstall both if you want to configure for MySql in PHP. 
> This is highly redundant.  It would be nice in this case if you could 
> deselect apache2 and php so they are not installed at all.  Sigh...
>
> Just turning into a major pain to get MySql and GD running in PHP5 from the 
> normal install of FC4.

But the point of the below comment is that you can "yum install php-mysql" 
or "up2date php-mysql" (or the same with php-gd) and the functionality is 
added to PHP automagically.  There are a bunch of other php-* RPMs for 
other modules as well.

It's actually pretty cool, if you get your mind set right.  The only issue 
I've run into is that I wanted to enable Salblotron support and there 
isn't a package for that.  I grabbed the php SRPM, installed it, modified 
the spec file, and rebuilt it.  It's not *that* hard, but it's not quite 
as easy as if it was built in.

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> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:35:42 -0500, Brian Gaynor <briang at pmccorp.com> wrote:
>
>> For PHP many things now (such as mysql and gd) are handled by modules
>> (just like for apache), take a look in /etc/php.d. MySQL support is
>> include with FC4, however it may not be selected by default in the
>> installer (it hasn't been in the past). If you install the php-mysql and
>> php-gd rpms you should be all set.
>> 
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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