how to install and run phpize

Question

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 didnt return anything.

Any pointers here how I can get phpize and thus, ffmpeg up and running ?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

For PHP7 Users

sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev

Answer 3

Go to the downloaded folder and there you find config.m4. Open the terminal and run phpsize.

Answer 4

Ohk.. I got it running by typing /usr/bin/phpize instead of only phpize.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

For ubuntu with plesk installed run apt-get install plesk-php56-dev ,for other versions just change XX in phpXX (without dot)

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