Question: Hi techglimpse, I was trying to install APC for Mediawiki using yum on CentOS virtual machine. To install APC package, I ran pecl command as ‘pecl install apc‘. But the command failed with an error as “sh: phpize: command not found. ERROR: `phpize’ failed“. I also found that ‘phpize‘ did not exist in PATH variable. I installed all the packages of PHP via yum. Could you please tell me which PHP package will actually contain ‘phpize‘ command? as this package is required to install APC
– Thanks Maneesh.
Solution:
Maneesh, did you install PHP developer package? The ‘phpize‘ command is bundled as part of the PHP development tools. You can run the below command to check if ‘php-devel‘ package is installed on your machine.
# rpm -qa |grep php-devel php-devel-5.3.3-46.el6_6.x86_64
If you don’t find one, then you need to install ‘php-devel’ package via yum as below:
# yum install php-devel
Once the package is installed successfully, check if ‘phpize’ exist.
# which phpize /usr/bin/phpize
Now, try installing APC and it should work.
What is APC? APC called as "Alternative PHP Cache", a language that helps to improve application performance by caching the output of PHP bytecode compiler.
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