I recently found out about T1LIB. But I had no clue how to install this. Lucky for me I am on Ubuntu and I have the ability to search for a package.
T1LIB is actually in the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. You can install it by punching in the following command
apt-get install t1lib-bin
On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Do this (there’s no need to do any compiling anymore)
apt-get install libssh2-1-dev libssh2-php
You can now test if PHP recognizes it’s new ssh2 extension by running:
php -m |grep ssh2
Don’t forget to restart Apache
service apache2 restart
Its been about almost more then two years since I have been playing with CentOS on many different platforms etc. Its very stable but on the other hand, PHP/MySQL updates are very hard to get and still PHP is 5.1.6. I tried EPEL repo and it updated PHP to 5.3.1 but still there were conflicts with stuff and many core packages.
So, I thought why not move to Ubuntu since it has just announced 10.04LTS (Long Term Support) in April 2010. Folks at iWeb were really nice to do a reinstall without any charges and also process a memory upgrade request at an amazing 50% discount.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
As a comparison CentOS 5.4 has the following versions
So if you are a PHP developer looking to deploy a Linux flavour on your new box, choose Ubuntu 