Find the library or program that installs a specific file with apt-file

Posted by on 2013/05/09 No comments

Sometime you could end up in a situation where you need to know which program or library installs a file. That happened to me while installing redmine. I got an error telling me that it couldn’t find the MagickWand.h file. apt-file tells you the library you need to install to get that file.

$ sudo apt-get install apt-file
$ sudo apt-file update
$ apt-file search MagickWand.h
imagemagick-doc: /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/api/MagickWand/struct__MagickWand.html
libmagickwand-dev: /usr/include/ImageMagick/wand/MagickWand.h

Thus I installed libmagickwand-dev and the problem went away:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

Solve “The Alias directive in … will probably never match because ir overlaps an earlier Alias”

Posted by on 2013/05/08 No comments

This is a warning that happens when starting Apache2.

$ sudo service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                [Wed May 08 11:55:52 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
 ... waiting [Wed May 08 11:55:54 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
                                                                         [ OK ]

It is caused because the configuration for phpMyAdmin is loaded 2 times: in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf and /etc/apache2/apache2.conf with an include to /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf.

To get rid of this warning just comment out this line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Install and activate xdebug in MacPorts

Posted by on 2013/04/27 No comments

First install php5-xdebug:

sudo port install php5-xdebug

Then just add these in your php.ini (probably /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini), but first verify the file path for zend_extension option:

; NOTE: This line adds the xdebug extension. The macports install will give you the path, 
; or may even add this automatically. Be smart, look for a similar line in your config first.
; (Edit: 06/22/2012)
zend_extension="/opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xdebug.so"

; General config
;Dumps local variables on exception
xdebug.show_local_vars=On
;Dump server variables
xdebug.dump.SERVER=*
;Dump global variables
xdebug.dump_globals=On
xdebug.collect_params=4;

; Tracing
xdebug.auto_trace=On
xdebug.trace_output_dir=/opt/local/php_traces/
xdebug.show_mem_delta=On
xdebug.collect_return=On

; Profiler
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/opt/local/php_traces

; Debugging. You might need to specify your host with some additional options
xdebug.remote_enable=1

Ref: http://www.littleblackhat.com/blog/2009/02/getting-xdebug-working-on-mac-os-x-with-macports/

Install Doctrine2 with PEAR in MacPorts

Posted by on 2013/04/27 No comments

Run those commands:

sudo /opt/local/bin/pear channel-discover pear.doctrine-project.org
sudo /opt/local/bin/pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
sudo /opt/local/bin/pear install -a pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineORM-2.3.3
sudo /opt/local/bin/pear install pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineSymfonyConsole
sudo /opt/local/bin/pear install pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineSymfonyYaml

Then running doctrine -v should work but /opt/local/lib/php must be in the include_path of your PHP installation. I tried to include it in my /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini file but didn’t work, so I added this line as the very first line in /opt/local/bin/doctrine.php:

set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '/opt/local/lib/php');

Then everything worked fine.

Ref: http://delboy1978uk.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/installing-doctrine-2-2-2-on-mac-os-x/

Useful Apache 2 and MySQL 5 service aliases for MacPorts

Posted by on 2013/04/27 No comments

Those are some aliases I use to start, stop and restart Apache 2 and MySQL on my MacPorts installation done with the installation script I made some time ago. You have to edit “~/.bash_profile” file and add those lines:

alias mysql5start='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5/mysql5.wrapper start'
alias mysql5stop='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5/mysql5.wrapper stop'
alias mysql5restart='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5/mysql5.wrapper restart'

alias apache2start='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper start'
alias apache2stop='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper stop'
alias apache2restart='sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper restart'

Then execute “source ~/.bash_profile” to load the new aliases or just open a new terminal window.