The extension Scribunto requires PCRE 8.33 or higher. PCRE 8.33 was released in May 2013. Thus this page is only relevant for ancient systems.
The process below describes how to update to PCRE 8.33 on an Ubuntu virtual server (instance) running on an Amazon AWS.
As of this date, the Ubuntu server will install PCRE 8.31. To update to 8.33 you will need to install a number of library packages necessary to compile new code. You will also need to know how to login as the root user.
If you don't want to compile things, Ondřej Surý's PHP PPA may also work.
Ondřej Surý happens to be the Debian maintainer for PHP, so this is a reasonably high-quality PPA.
As of January 2018, it carries PCRE 8.41. This worked to upgrade PCRE on Ubuntu 14.04.
Caution: This PPA installs a lot of other stuff if you let it. Keep an eye on what it installs, be prepared to revert if something goes wrong. But it'll probably be just fine.
You will, of course, need to follow the Amazon AWS instructions for connecting with the server. One option is to download and install Git Bash and log-in to the server using your key.
If your Key.pem is in KeyDirectory those commands may look something like:
cd KeyDirectory chmod 400 Key.pem ssh -i "Key.pem" ubuntu@ec2-52-223-93-123.compute-1.amazonaws.com
If you successfully login, the prompt will show your path followed by $
Do not try to go to the root directory to run the following commands. Run them from the default directory where your permissions are already set up right.
Cut and paste the following lines. They will all run in sequence. If there are any errors, you may need to run each install separately, as is done with the first three:
apt-get install build-essential apt-get install checkinstall apt-get install automake apt-get install libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev libbz2-ocaml libbz2-ocaml-dev apt-get install libreadline-dev
You can search for the latest package address, which may be higher than 8.33. The steps below include the address for the package as of this date, Make any required changes for a different version or package
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcre/pcre-8.33.tar.gz tar -xvzf pcre-8.33.tar.gz
If the package extracts properly, you will see all the new contents in the directory pcre-8.33. To see directories, type in the command line: ls
cd pcre-8.33 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.33 \ --enable-utf \ --enable-unicode-properties \ --enable-pcre16 \ --enable-pcre32 \ --enable-pcregrep-libz \ --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 \ --enable-pcretest-libreadline \ --disable-static && make
Now test the make, with the command:
Now finish up the libraries with this command:
Sudo priviliges are required for the final make.
sudo make install sudo mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib sudo ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libpcre.so) /usr/lib/libpcre.so
Then restart the server:
sudo service apache2 restart
The above command should indicate how things are going.
Run the phpinfo.php page on your server (lookup how to make one, if you don't) and check what is listed for PCRE.
In my case, it still shows 8.31 installed, event though pcretest shows 8.33. Go figure! I don't know what to make of it at this time...nor can I tell if it is still causing problems with Scribunto.
But I hope this helps!
According to this source, I made a mistake compiling as root user, since that messes up privileges. But I'm leaving this section to explain how to Login as Root User, just in case it helps someone.
NOTE: To disable root access, enter the command sudo passwd -dl root
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.4/general/pcre.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12212079/pcre-libraries-version-is-too-old
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