Installing PHP5 Debugger On OpenSUSE 11.3

PHP

This tutorial shows how to install php5 debugger (xdebug) on OpenSUSE11.3.

I suppose you have installed Apache2 and PHP5 packages through zypper or yast. If not, please run:

zypper install php5 apache2 apache2-mod_php5

The reasonI use xdebug is, as far as I know now, xdebug supports php 5.3 or above.

I have the following installation environment:

OS: OpenSUSE 11.3 32 bit

Webserver: Apache 2.2.15 linux/suse

PHP: 5.3.2, with xdebug 2.1.0

Now let's begin (I runthe following step as root, although you may not need it for some steps).

Step 1. Download xdebug 2.1.0 from http://www.xdebug.org/files/xdebug-2.1.0.tgz into /tmp directory, run tar command to unzip it, and cd into the xdebug2.1.0 directory:

cd /tmp

tar zxvf xdebug-2.1.0.tgz && cd xdebug-2.1.0

Step 2. Install additional packages before compiling xdebug, for my system, I need gcc, make, and php5-devel:

zypper install gcc make php5-devel

Step 3.  Make sure /usr/bin/phpize and /usr/bin/php-config exist (soft links to /etc/alternative/):

ls -l /usr/bin/php