installing latest version of php on a Sun box

[nozom]

We've picked up a sun box from another company, its running apache already not PHP, i would like to put the latest PHP version on there but i can't find a place to download it from and i am very VERY new to using the SUN machine (1 day) so i don't know what to do with the source code.

We also can't get into the GUI for some reason so it's command line for everything.

Cheers,
nozom

[jjiimm]

To download php , go to php.com ?

[tsinka]

Hi,

download the sources from www.php.net.

Read the documentation about compiling and installing php.
In order to successfully compile php on Solaris you should install some important gnu tools like make, gcc and so on. You can download those packages on www.sunfreeware.com as Solaris packages.

Normally Solaris boots up to the X environment automatically if there is a supported graphics card installed.

You can try to enable the CDE with:

# /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -e (this enables the CDE desktop)

and reboot afterwards

# reboot

It should then boot up to the CDE. You might need to wait a few seconds or minutes after rebooting, do not press a key while the system is booting otherwise it would take you to a command line login.

[nozom]

sweet, i will get down to it tomorrow.

all ive used before is windows so stepping onto this is strange but hopefully will teach me a lot.

cheers again.
hugh