How to install XDebug under VMWare Ubuntu LAMP appliance?

I tried to install xdebug with:
“pecl install xdebug”
but I got errors.

Than I found this tutorial on web address
“http://www.niccolofavari.com/configure-xdebug-with-bitnami-php-stacks-on-linux-ubuntu” but command
“sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear”
did not work.

Is there any way to install xdebug on this appliance?

Hi,

Have you tried to update the repository before isntalling the packages? Which is the exact error?

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear

Cheers

Thanks man. That is it.

There is another problem. After “sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear” command finished. Command “pecl install xdebug” build xdebug.so for php 5.3 but vmware lamp appliance has php version 5.2.13. What can I do now?

Hi,

Sorry but I’m confused. You are installing php packages in your system only to copy the xdebug extension. Try to install directly from the pecl that is included in LAMPStack but maybe you have to install make, gcc, autoconf and other compilation tools:

$ cd installation_directory
$ php/bin/pecl install xdebug

I hope it helps

Thanks. Now it works.

You should build php with XSL support.

Thanks for your suggestion. We will add it in our TODO list.

can you guide me to configure xdebug in latest version of bitnami ???

Hi,

XDebug extension is included in the latest LAMP, MAMP and WAMP Stacks. You only have to uncoment the following lines in the your_installdir/php/etc/php.ini file:

;[XDebug]                                                                                             
;; Only Zend OR (!) XDebug                                                                            
;zend_extension_ts="/your_installdir/php/lib/php/extensions/xdebug.so"
;xdebug.remote_enable=true                                                                            
;xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1                                                                         
;xdebug.remote_port=9000                                                                              
;xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp                                                                           
;xdebug.profiler_enable=1                                                                             
;xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp