PHP installation

hey everyone. iv been usin php on fedora 8 but the default installation's not enough. does anyone know how to install it from sources and in a way that both installations wont clash? thanks

 

what do u mean is not enough ?

 

what i mean is that some the default php installation does not include some external packages (eg from PEAR) and when i look at the php manual, it talks about recompilling with those packages as an option. but my installation is rpm.

 

what packages do u need ?

 

mostly pear packages from PEAR like RC4 and RCA
sorry i take long to reply. i dont have a constant net connection.

 

you can use

Code:

pear install <package name>

 

hope you don't mind my hijacking,
but what is it that 'pear' is supposed to do? i did not grasp it from the php documentation.

 

http://pear.php.net/

 

you need to install php and apache

rpm -i apache
rpm -i php

 

thanks for the help everyone. i was able to install
the packages i need by using

yum install php-pear
pear install <my packages>