Okay, ive been busy setting up my LAMP server.

i didnt seem to have the libjpeg or libpng installed. So i got both of those.

And then i was missing the ZLIB and i got that.

and now for some reason, I cant even open programs. Not even the terminal. It'll just say "Starting XXXX.." on the bottom toolbar, and then dissapear



if it helps, i started getting
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

after i installed zlib/libpng/libjpeg/



ha, now that i have apache/mysql/php I cant even open programs to use it. Irony at its best, HA-HA-HA

-_-

please please help me out folks.

My /usr/lib;

[nonzero@blacky nonzero]# cd /usr/lib
[nonzero@blacky lib]# ls libz*
libz.a libz.so libz.so.1 libz.so.1.2.1.2
[nonzero@blacky lib]# ls -l libz*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71704 Sep 12 12:13 libz.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 4 23:59 libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 4 18:48 libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63528 Sep 12 12:13 libz.so.1.2.1.2
[nonzero@blacky lib]#

I think at the very least you've got a busted symlink 'libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.whatever' or maybe the library got
dorked. You've got a bootdisk don't you? Boot -> mount -> you know the drill -> reboot.
Note: You've seen all those gzipped files scattered all over your harddrive, libz is responsible for upacking them
for use.

nz

EDIT: Plz. don't reload the operating system, the time you take to fix this will be time WELL
spent.

Sorry, i had to reformat
i rebooted (i know i know, im so used to windows) and when i restarted, it brought me to a propt that looked exactly like my root prompt in the terminal. It didnt even load the desktop.

Now now i have it all back up and running, and im back at the PHP install that mentioned Libz, and i wanted to get some advice before i try to fix it, because last time i obviously messed it up. when i ./configure the php i get

Configuring extensions
checking for OpenSSL support... no
checking for ZLIB support... no
checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... /usr/lib
configure: error: Cannot find libz
[root@12-216-13-252 php-4.3.10]#

any ideas?

edit/ i already installed apache 1.3.33 mysql 4.1.10 successfully,

also, the full ./configure command im giving for php is :


./configure \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--disable-debug \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mm=shared \
--enable-safe-mode \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--enable-wddx=shared \
--enable-xml \
--with-dom \
--with-gd \
--with-gettext \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-regex=system \
--with-xml \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib

also, here is my /usr/lib

[root@12-216-13-252 php-4.3.10]# cd /usr/lib
[root@12-216-13-252 lib]# ls libz*
libz.so.1 libz.so.1.2.1.2
[root@12-216-13-252 lib]# ls -l libz*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 3 22:15 libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63528 Sep 12 12:13 libz.so.1.2.1.2
[root@12-216-13-252 lib]#

Do not issue the last '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib' directive (in fact issue no extra directives)
and try './configure' again. If all the compiler needs is the libraries to link against, it should find libz. If it needs the header files you would need to install the libz-devel package. Only add './configure' directives if you are sure you know what you are getting. Most builds (in my experience) go with no other options then possibly '--prefix=/usr'. If './configure' completes without error, add directives back in and see where it chokes.

nz