sudo pecl install apc returns error

Question

I run the command: sudo pecl install apc

The file gets downloaded, the configuration succeeds, then make is launched and I get the followin

Answer 1

What version of PHP?

For a while, some months ago, I had trouble installing APC, and could only make it work with pecl install apc-beta

If you're not dealing with a production system, you might try that.

Answer 2

I have posted an answer for the same here. But I am still posting here for reference

To include pcre.h file, search the package archives for the pcre.h file. To do this I use a command called apt-file (

apt-get install apt-file

and

apt-file update

if you don’t have it installed). Then search for the pcre package:

apt-file search -x "/pcre.h$"

The -x informs the command that I want to use a regular expression as the pattern. apt-file provided me with three hits:

• kannel-dev: /usr/include/kannel/gwlib/pcre.h
• libajax6-dev: /usr/include/ajax/pcre.h
• libpcre3-dev: /usr/include/pcre.h

The last one is the one I want:

apt-get install libpcre3-dev

This will solve the problem with pcre.h file compilation problem. Hope it will help others, who may come to find an answer to this thread.

Answer 3

You seem to be missing the development version of PHP5. On Ubuntu you can install it using:

sudo aptitude install php5-dev

Answer 4

PCRE is a dependency for installing APC. You can install it pretty quick with

yum install pcre-devel or apt-get install libpcre3-dev

once it's installed, re-run

sudo pecl install apc

Answer 5

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev is the answer.

So to be able to install pecl [install extension]

the following packages are required:

sudo apt-get install php5-pear php5-dev libpcre3-dev

Answer 6

Have you install a PHP extension via PECL before?

Does the file /usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h actually exist?

You could get this error because of the following

1. Incorrect permissions
2. PECL directory configuration is incorrect.