I just installed the latest Debian, and realized that the packages are not as up-to-date as I would like. For example I installed PHP and MySQL. PHP was at version 5.2.6 and MySQL was at version 5.0.15a. Considering PHP 5.2.11 and MySQL 5.1 are already released, made me think am I better off compiling from source?

After going down the compiling route, as in my previous post due to the same out dated problems I actually found a useful and up-to-date repository. Along with this, my bias towards Debian drastically strengthed. Which after many years of working on a a variety of other distro’s never quiet happened. Read the rest of this entry »

To install APC is usually straight forward:

apt-get install php5-dev
pecl install apc

If your using nginx make sure you enter no to install using ASPX (apache dynamic modules).

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When I first looked at how old the nginx package in the debian repo was I thought that I should compile nginx. However, I eventually managed to find a more recent repo which I will post later.

Download nginx and install dependencies

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