PCRE libraries version is too old

Question

The Bug Genie 3 requires PCRE librairies 8.0 or later. You have version 7.8 2008-09-05. Update your system to the latest release from your usual sources.

after i look at the problem and try to update my pcre libraries with the following step:

wget the latest source of pcre from sourceforge 8.31

# tar -xzf pcre-8.31.tar.gz
# cd pcre-8.31
# ./configure --enable-utf8  --enable-unicode-properties
# make && make install

when i do pcretest -C i got this

[root@server1 /]# pcretest -C
PCRE version 8.31 2012-07-06
Compiled with
  8-bit support only
  UTF-8 support
  Unicode properties support
  No just-in-time compiler support
  Newline sequence is LF
  \R matches all Unicode newlines
  Internal link size = 2
  POSIX malloc threshold = 10
  Default match limit = 10000000
  Default recursion depth limit = 10000000
  Match recursion uses stack

and when i do locate, there are a lot

[root@server1 /]# locate libpcre
/lib64/libpcre.so.0
/lib64/libpcre.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libpcre.a
/usr/local/lib/libpcre.la
/usr/local/lib/libpcre.so
/usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1.0.1
/usr/local/lib/libpcrecpp.a
/usr/local/lib/libpcrecpp.la
/usr/local/lib/libpcrecpp.so
/usr/local/lib/libpcrecpp.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libpcreposix.a
/usr/local/lib/libpcreposix.la
/usr/local/lib/libpcreposix.so
/usr/local/lib/libpcreposix.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libpcreposix.so.0.0.1
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libpcrecpp.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libpcreposix.pc

finally, i backed to my php info happily.. it still show me version 7.8 installed.

May i know what should i do to solve this while the open source application buggenie need this . Thx for reply.

Answer 1

I'm Centos 6.3 user. This worked in my case.

1. Search for existing pcre.

   rpm -qa | grep pcre
   

2. Remove all existing pcre using --nodeps.

3. Download pcre rpm higher than 8.x. I used one from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pcre

4. Install it using rpm.

5. Restart your web service and check phpinfo. It should reveal the pcre libraries you just installed.

Answer 2

On Centos 5.9 a modified version of drmanalo's steps worked for us:

1. Search for existing pcre
   rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}.%{arch}\n" pcre
2. Remove all existing pcre using --nodeps
   rpm -ev --nodeps pcre-devel.x86_64
   rpm -ev --nodeps pcre.x86_64
   rpm -ev --nodeps pcre-devel.i386
   rpm -ev --nodeps pcre.i386
   
3. Added repository
   nano /etc/yum.repos.d/utter-ramblings.repo

   [utter-ramblings]
   name=Utter Ramblings
   baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL5/x86_64/
   gpgkey=#same.url.as.above#/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   

4. Installed using yum
   yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=utter-ramblings install pcre pcre-devel
5. Restart your web service and check phpinfo