Install PHP-FPM 5.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.10

Until PHP-FPM is included in PHP core, installing PHP-FPM is kind of a pain. Fortunately, it looks like it will be included in PHP 5.4. For now, installing PHP-FPM now can be done in a few different ways:

• Using SVN. This version is based off of the 0.6.x series in Launchpad. This method is considered experimental and has a few known issues reported.

$ svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3_FPM php_5_3_fpm
$ cd php_5_3_fpm
$ ./buildconf --force
$ ./configure --enable-fpm --with-foo --enable-bar...
$ make && make install

• The stable patch method works well however it still requires you to compile PHP manually. This is considered the most reliable method.

• The easiest method is to use apt-get. This is what we’ll be using here.

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
$ wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu38_3.8-6ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
$ dpkg -i *.deb
$ echo "deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ apt-get --force-yes update
$ apt-get --force-yes install php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql php5-suhosin
$ apt-get --force-yes install php5-fpm php5-cgi php-pear php5-memcache

Use the –force-yes flag in the commands above to roll past the package warnings. Now, start the daemon and clean up the /tmp directory:

$ /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start
$ rm -rf /tmp/lib*

To check if the install was successful, use the following:

$ php -v

You should see something like the following output:

PHP 5.3.2-0.dotdeb.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Mar  9 2010 11:42:01)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
    with Suhosin v0.9.29, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH

Notes:

• To meet the required dependencies, you’ll need to install libxml2-dev and libevent-dev before you get started.

• If you are running Karmic in 32-bit, replace amd64 with i386 in the dependencies used above.