Hello,

I have installed PHP5 and Apache together on Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
I try to run some phpinfo code on /srv/www/htdocs/index.html as
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

It return PHP version information.

When I try to install php5-devel, it does not work by using the following command.

zypper install php5-devel

client:/ # zypper install php5-devel
Warning: No repositories defined. Operating only with the installed resolvables. Nothing can be installed.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Package 'php5-devel' not found.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.

I need to install the php5-devel and php-pear to run pecl on db2 database driver.

Thanks in advance for help.

Well, there is one thing you can do in this case: Call SuSE support....SuSE enterprise Linux is a commercial, PAY-FOR distribution. Unless you pay for it, you don't get access to the repositories, which is what the error is telling you. If you're paying and have that problem, they can help you get it resolved quickly. If you're NOT paying, there's not much you can do...aside from the VERY arduous task of compiling/installing that from source, along with ALL the dependencies (and all THEIR dependencies too...), one by one. And when you're done doing that, you'll be left with a system that's not stable, since you're mixing/matching things that are tested and certified together, with stuff that's not.

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Thank you TBone Guru.
It works now.

Glad it's working...why don't you tell us what you did to GET it working?? Since you came here for help, others may also, so posting the solution is a good thing to do.

Hello TBOne Guru,

I follow the instructions from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org to configure, make test, make install for the following sources.

1) php-5.5.15.tar.bz2
2) libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz
3) libffi-3.1.tar.gz
4) Python-2.7.8.tar.xz
5) zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz

Then I execute sudo pecl install ibm_db2

It will download and install ibm_db2.

WHY the "bleep" are you using tarbals???
call novell
pay for the license
use zypper

it will be in the Operating system base repo

Hello John Guru,

I have change my linux software repository to my company internal ftp server which has SLES 11 SP3.
I could not find php5-devel repo.

client:~/Desktop # zypper se php5
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-------------------+------------------------------------------+-----------
i | apache2-mod_php53 | PHP5 Module for Apache 2.0 | package
i | php53 | PHP5 Core Files | package
| php53 | PHP5 Core Files | srcpackage
| php53-bcmath | PHP5 Core Files | package
| php53-bz2 | PHP5 Core Files | package
| php53-calendar | PHP5 Core Files | package
i | php53-ctype | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-curl | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-dba | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-dom | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-exif | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-fastcgi | FastCGI PHP5 Module | package
| php53-fileinfo | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-ftp | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-gd | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-gettext | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-gmp | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-iconv | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-intl | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-json | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-ldap | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-mbstring | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-mcrypt | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-mysql | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-odbc | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-openssl | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-pcntl | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-pdo | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-pear | PHP Extension and Application Repository | package
| php53-pgsql | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-pspell | PHP5 pspell extension | package
| php53-shmop | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-snmp | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-soap | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-suhosin | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-sysvmsg | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-sysvsem | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-sysvshm | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-tokenizer | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-wddx | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-xmlreader | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-xmlrpc | PHP5 Extension Module | package
i | php53-xmlwriter | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-xsl | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-zip | PHP5 Extension Module | package
| php53-zlib | PHP5 Extension Module | package
client:~/Desktop # zypper info php5-devel
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


package 'php5-devel' not found.


Thanks in advance for help.

to see what repos are installed
you might also want to refresh the database of software

Hello John Guru,

Here is the result of the repo
client:~/Desktop # zypper ls
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Type
--+-----------+-----------+---------+---------+------
1 | suse_repo | suse repo | Yes | Yes | yast2

client:~/Desktop # zypper refs
All services have been refreshed.

client:~/Desktop # zypper search php5-devel
Retrieving repository 'suse repo' metadata [done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No packages found.

Thank you