Can't Install libcurl PHP on Ubuntu Linux
- by FranticPedantic
I am trying to use the new facebook api and it requires libcurl PHP. I used
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo apachectl -k restart
And it didn't work. I get the same error and the phpinfo() page says nothing about libcurl.
The source of this problem is probably that I built some of the tools from source (apache2, php), but then I got bored so installed a lot of the extensions with the package manager. But I'm not exactly how to go about diagnosing the point of failure.
The apt-get install for curl definitely worked, and can be found in
/usr/lib/php5/20060613/curl.so
I think a lot of my confusion stems from not knowing which files go where, and what purpose they have. Any help would be appreciated, and please tell me if I need to provide more information.
edit:
The specific error I get is:
Exception: Facebook needs the CURL PHP extension.
from line
if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
throw new Exception('Facebook needs the CURL PHP extension.');
}
Ubuntu: 9.10
PHP: 5.2.13
Loaded Configuration File: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
