08 Oct 2008 
Matteo Mattei 
linux php centos imagick 
To install imagemagick with PHP imagick extension on Linux CentOS you must follow these steps:
yum install ImageMagick
yum install ImageMagick-devel
pecl install imagick
If you have an error like this:
root@myhost [~]# pecl install imagick
downloading imagick-3.0.1.tgz ...
Starting to download imagick-3.0.1.tgz (93,920 bytes)
.....................done: 93,920 bytes
13 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
Please provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation [autodetect] :
building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/imagick-3.0.1
running: /root/tmp/pear/imagick/configure --with-imagick
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/imagick/configure --with-imagick' failed
Look at your /tmp folder… pretty surely it is mounted with noexec flag. Remount it without noexec and retry:
At the end of the installation, create an inclusion file for imagick.so module and restart apache:
echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Test the correct load of the imagick module with:
22 Sep 2008 Matteo Mattei linux mysql tricks Today I have got an anomalous error during a database import on mysql:
ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 3854: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
To solve this is sufficient to edit the mysql configuration file (/etc/my.cnf on Linux) and fill a suitable big value for max_allowed_packet. In my case I set it to 100M.
Restart mysqld daemon and now the import will gone fine!
29 Jun 2008 Matteo Mattei bash linux svn tricks When you want to distribute your own sources without any .svn directories is sufficient to create an export of the project with this command:
svn export svn://path_to_repository projectname
But often I have not access to the repository, so I remove any .svn directory by hand.
For a couple of directories is not a problem but today I have a big project with hundreds of directories, so I created a little script to help me:
find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -r '{}' \;
Replace “.” with your root folder.
26 Jun 2008 Matteo Mattei embedded linux opensuse In these days at work we are evaluating to buy a cross-compiler IDE of ColdFire developed by CodeSourcery G++. The development environment is substantially Eclipse optimized for that cross-compiler. During installation of the package we have discovered a lot of problems running the IDE installation and the next license installation.
From the official site must download the *.bin package that contains all the necessary, but after run, we have always obtained this error:
eclipse.bin: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed
To solve this issue is sufficient to insert this line into ~/.bashrc:
export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
and reload the file:
Well, proceed with installation and complete it. At the end a wizard license will be prompt but it was never appear to us, may be because of some problem about the MAC address of our virtual machine (we work under vmware). So, we have prepared a new computer with native Linux, put it out of the net (probably the license evaluation file it will be downloaded directly from Internet during installation), waiting the wizard appear, download the license from CodeSourcery site by hand and import it to the wizard itself.
Only after all these fix and tries we were finally able to work with the new development environment. Unfortunately, using it we have discovered that sometimes Eclipse crashes with no sense and we have not yet understand why.
25 Jun 2008 Matteo Mattei linux grub opensuse Today I tested the new OpenSuse 10.3 with KDE both in CD and DVD version on an old Packard Bell Desk Pro. After a long wait during installation, at automatic reboot it will be prompt a classic black screen with the message “Operative System not present”. After a vanished search on the net looking for some informations, I thought that the installer was failed to install the bootloader and so I have just tried to do it manually. Here there are all the steps I follow:
- Boot OpenSuse installation CD/DVD and enter in Recovery mode
- Run grub ed enter in its own shell
- From here run these commands:
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
Where:
- hd0,1 => sda2
- hd0 => sda </li>
Restart the system and magically the installation will go on.
15 May 2008 Matteo Mattei linux php centos Virtual server like Aruba virtual servers are configured with Centos without yum and without php-pear. Today I have done an assistance to a server of my customer that needed pear installation. It is quite simple to make all work but I don’t understand why Aruba’s staff have not decided to include yum in their own default configuration server…
Shall we start installing yum:
mkdir /root/matteo && cd /root/matteo
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm
rpm rpm -Uvh readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
yum -y update
Now it’s time to install php-pear:
Ok, in every virtual-host of Plesk (/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/httpd.include), there is the directive open_basedir that must be configured in the right way adding the pear path:
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/share/pear:/local/PEAR"
We must also configure pear in /etc/php.ini
include_path=".:/usr/share/pear:/local/PEAR/"
At the end you shall restart Apache:
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
