Installing libphp2 for PHP over Joyent SmartMachine Server

On a Joyent server, I needed to install the libphp2 for PHP on SmartMachine so that WordPress can use SSH in your PHP code, but when I tried following command to install package, it gave followign error:

 
[root@server]# pecl channel-update pear.php.net
bash: pecl: command not found

This error can be resolved by doing following:

 
[user@server]# su -
Password:

Just make sure you do “su -”, so that a full environment gets initialized rather than just the . If you do just get a limited PATH if you do simple ‘su root’.

To install libphp2 for PHP on your joyent SmartMachine, do foloowing:

These commands should be run as root user:

 
[root@server]#pkgin in libssh2
[root@server]#pkgin in autoconf
 
[root@server]#pecl channel-update pear.php.net
[root@server]#pecl install -f ssh2

As a final step, you should add “extension=ssh2.so” to php.ini.

You can do that easily from your Webmin, just log in to Webmin and navigate to Webmin – Others – PHP Configuration – Edit Manually.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!

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