sudo pecl install apc returns error

Question

I run the command: sudo pecl install apc

The file gets downloaded, the configuration succeeds, then make is launched and I get the following error.

/usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory

Is there a way to fix it?

score 100 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 13 '11 at 14:19

100

PCRE is a dependency for installing APC. You can install it pretty quick with

yum install pcre-devel or apt-get install libpcre3-dev

once it's installed, re-run

sudo pecl install apc

edited Jul 13 '11 at 14:19

Robert Ros

1,526
11
22

answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:20

Chris Henry

11,914
3
30
31

2

PCRE is required but [the docs](http://nl.php.net/manual/en/apc.requirements.php) still say: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension." – Robert Ros Jul 13 '11 at 13:34
1

`sudo apt-get install build-essential` may help with the external libraries issue. – Citricguy Jul 01 '13 at 11:43

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '11 at 07:08

12

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev is the answer.

So to be able to install pecl [install extension]

the following packages are required:

sudo apt-get install php5-pear php5-dev libpcre3-dev

answered Jan 18 '11 at 07:08

Nicolas de Fontenay

2,170
5
26
51

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:14

3

What version of PHP?

For a while, some months ago, I had trouble installing APC, and could only make it work with pecl install apc-beta

If you're not dealing with a production system, you might try that.

answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:14

timdev

61,857
6
82
92

Cobby · Answer 4 · 2014-09-26T05:31:15.393

1

Have you install a PHP extension via PECL before?

Does the file /usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h actually exist?

You could get this error because of the following

Incorrect permissions
PECL directory configuration is incorrect.

edited Sep 26 '14 at 05:31

answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:17

Cobby

5,273
4
28
41

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:24

1

You seem to be missing the development version of PHP5. On Ubuntu you can install it using:

sudo aptitude install php5-dev

answered Jan 18 '11 at 05:24

John P

15,035
4
48
56

I received this error after installing php5-dev, unfortunately (Ubuntu 12.04). – Ryre Aug 26 '13 at 23:18

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

I have posted an answer for the same here. But I am still posting here for reference

To include pcre.h file, search the package archives for the pcre.h file. To do this I use a command called apt-file (

apt-get install apt-file

and

apt-file update

if you don’t have it installed). Then search for the pcre package:

apt-file search -x "/pcre.h$"

The -x informs the command that I want to use a regular expression as the pattern. apt-file provided me with three hits:

kannel-dev: /usr/include/kannel/gwlib/pcre.h
libajax6-dev: /usr/include/ajax/pcre.h
libpcre3-dev: /usr/include/pcre.h

The last one is the one I want:

apt-get install libpcre3-dev

This will solve the problem with pcre.h file compilation problem. Hope it will help others, who may come to find an answer to this thread.

sudo pecl install apc returns error

6 Answers6

Linked