This is a revamped guide, previously wrote for gutsy, enjoy! 1) prerequisites First of all we’ll install the php5-dev package which contains some utilities we’ll need for the build process: sudo apt-get install php5-dev then you’ve to find out your ORACLE_HOME environment variable, try executing: env | grep ORACLE_HOME= If this command outputs something like: [...]

UPDATED guide for >=Jaunty 1) prerequisites First of all we’ll install the php5-dev package which contains some utilities we’ll need for the build process: sudo apt-get install php5-dev then you’ve to find out your ORACLE_HOME environment variable, try executing: env | grep ORACLE_HOME= If this command outputs something like: ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server then you can jump to [...]