Install php5-rrd module on ubuntu 12.04

Abstract

Since I am running php-5.4 on ubuntu 12.04, apt-get install php5-rrd is not work due to the problems of dependency. I need to do it via pecl alternatively.

Steps

1. Make sure your pecl is installed properly.

2. apt-get install php5-dev

3. pecl update-channels

4. pecl install rrd

5. cd /etc/php5/mods-available

6. cp {?.ini} rrd.ini 

//note that simply copy a file among this directory and modify the extension value to rrd.so

7. cd ../conf.d

8. ln -s ../mods-available/rrd.ini 20-rrd.ini

done

Check

php -v

php -m | grep rrd