pecl install cassandra throws: “error: Unable to load libcassandra”

Question

pecl install cassandra

produces an error:

configure: error: Unable to load libcassandra

ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/

Answer 1

For ubuntu 14.04: Installation steps are:

sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev libgmp-dev libpcre3-dev g++ make cmake libssl-dev openssl
wget downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dependencies/libuv/v1.8.0/libuv_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
wget downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dependencies/libuv/v1.8.0/libuv-dev_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
wget downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra/v2.4.2/cassandra-cpp-driver_2.4.2-1_amd64.deb
wget downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra/v2.4.2/cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.4.2-1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libuv_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libuv-dev_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver_2.4.2-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.4.2-1_amd64.deb

pecl install cassandra

ADD extension=cassandra.so in php.ini

restart the PHP process