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kousi

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 5

php5-sybase (MSSQL) or lack thereof?

I didn't want to need support for MSSQL but sometimes you're in situations where you have to interface with it.  Anyway, using PHP + MSSQL in Ubuntu was a breeze I just installed the following package:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/jaunty/web/php5-sybase

I was kind of surprised not finding this in Arch, but maybe I'm retarded and couldn't find it.  So my solution was to download and extract (using deb2tgz):

(PHP5 Module) http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ … 1_i386.deb
(Sybase Lib) http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/m … 4_i386.deb

I then copied the php module and lib files to the correct directories (having PHP already installed) and voila it worked like a champ.  I believe I copied over a total of 3-5 files.

Now I, I have it working with no problems, but did I do more work then necessary, am I missing that we have this already?