[TYPO3] Do I really need gzlib to install a typo3 extension??!

[Steffen Müller]

On 08.08.2008 18:51 Mike wrote:
> 
> 
> Steffen Müller wrote:
>> Depends on your servers distribution and the php package you have. Which
>> one do you use?
>> Normally, zlib is installed and enanbled by default. Maybe you have to
>> add it as a php module, or simply enable it. Take a look at phpinfo()
>> and search for zlib.
> 
> zlib is not normally installed in the official distribution from
> php.net, at least not any (official) php distrib before 5.2.3, and I
> doubt after.  Look at the defaults for ./configure.
> 
> God, I guess I'll have to recompile php.
> 

If you decided to install php from scratch then you have to install it
from scratch. You could instead use a package from your distribution
(red hat, suse, ubuntu, debian, ... whatever). This is what I meant.

-- 
cheers,
Steffen