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AnthonyBartoli's avatar

Required PHP Extensions - Zip Extension required

Hello,

Brand new to Laravel and excited to dive in.

Following the installation instructions at https://laravel.com/docs/5.2 I discovered that the OpenSSL, PDO PHP, Mbstring, and Tokenizer extensions were not enough for laravel to run.

The Zip extension must also be enabled:

https://s32.postimg.org/lbfhgme6d/zip_required.png

Perhaps the documentation should be updated.

For those manually installing PHP (my Fedora's default was out of date), the following configure statement installed PHP successfully for Laravel to run:

sudo ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs --with-mysql --enable-mbstring --with-mysqli --with-openssl=/usr/ --enable-zip
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ohffs's avatar

You're probably better posting to the docs repo on github rather than on here :-)

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ohffs's avatar

They're taking a lot of updates just now - so it's quite timely :-)

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