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How to install the pdflib PECL module

Eric Delorme
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Introduction

There are no libraries for pdflib via RPM so they need to be manually compiled so the PECL module can be compiled.

NOTE: This PECL module has only added support up to PHP 7. PHP 8 is not compatible and there is no maintainer to add support for PHP 8. 

Procedure

The following set of commands will get the pdflib libraries compiled and installed.

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
tar xvfz PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3.tar.gz
cd PDFlib-Lite-7.0.5p3/
./configure && make && make install

 

Once that completes the pecl module needs to be installed manually using the command line so the correct path can be set like this for PHP 5.6 as an example

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/pecl install pdflib

and when you see

path to pdflib installation? :

enter the following

/usr/local/

and then press enter.

If this is a CloudLinux server with cagefs run

cagefsctl --force-update

and then the final step restart the web server

/scripts/restartsrv_httpd --hard

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