Currently installing Laravel on my Arch Linux.
I got PHP, MySQL, Apache and Composer installed and trying to install Laravel with this:
$ composer global require laravel/installer
But got this instead:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/gd (/usr/lib/php/modules/gd: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/modules/gd.so (/usr/lib/php/modules/gd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'openssl.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/openssl.so (/usr/lib/php/modules/openssl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/modules/openssl.so.so (/usr/lib/php/modules/openssl.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'phar.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/phar.so (/usr/lib/php/modules/phar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/modules/phar.so.so (/usr/lib/php/modules/phar.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Phar::mapPhar(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/composer) is not within the allowed path(s): (/srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps/) in /usr/bin/composer on line 28 PHP Warning: require(phar://composer.phar/bin/composer): Failed to open stream: phar error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar://composer.phar/bin/composer" in /usr/bin/composer on line 29 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required 'phar://composer.phar/bin/composer' (include_path='.:') in /usr/bin/composer:29 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /usr/bin/composer on line 29
And so I have six errors and I'll be going through all of them one by one. I decided to document it here as a journal which can serve as a note for the future.
First up is the "Unable to load dynamic library 'gd'".
This means "there's something wrong with gd.
What can we do?
- Back up libgd.so first.
- Restart server and install again
What is libgd.so? It's a GD Graphics library in a shared object file
- lib is for library
- gd is for GD Graphics or GIF Draw graphics
- .so is an extension name for shared objects file
So the error message is saying that it's unable to load the shared object. I checked the folder and it's not there. Next is to download and install:
$ sudo pacman -S php-gd
Then restart httpd.service.
Installed Laravel again and the error message is gone, but not all.
So on to the next one.
