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!

References:

• http://www.zend.com/products/server/
• http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/downloads
• http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/
• http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-5-Community-Edition/zend-server.htm#choosing_which_distribution_to_install.htm