Installing Zend Server 5.3 on Ubuntu 10.04
Zend Server is the commercial platform for PHP web applications. It’s an Apache/PHP stack that can be installed on Linux and Windows, with a free Community Edition also available for OSX. There are many many good reasons for running the commercial stack over the open source packages (also developed by Zend), but I won’t go into that detail here.
Today, I’m installing the Zend Server package to evaluate the Code Tracing and Replay functionality between the Zend Server and the Zend Studio IDE – a very powerful feature set if it does what the marketing material promotes.
So here’s the process that I went through:-
1/ Download Ubuntu 10.04, and create a new empty VMWare image
2/ Install Ubuntu into the new VMWare image
3/ Upon successful installation of Ubuntu, ran update manager
4/ Restarted Ubuntu
5/ Download Zend Server (Login to zend.com required)
6/ Follow the installation guide, which essentially states to run install_zs.sh, which yielded dependency issues
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php-5.3-mysqli-zend-server: Depends: libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.27-1) which is a virtual package. php-5.3-pdo-mysql-zend-server: Depends: libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.27-1) which is a virtual package. php-5.3-mysql-zend-server: Depends: libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.27-1) which is a virtual package.
7/ Install the libmysqlclient15off package ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libmysqlclient15off )
8/ Re-ran the Zend Server Install Script “./install_zs.sh 5.3″
That’s it – aside from the libmysqlclient15off gotchya with Ubuntu 10.04, it was very simple to install and configure. One of the great advantages of a stack solution. I’m off to evaluate Code Tracing from the IDE!
