How to fix error with xml2-config not found when installing PHP from sources?

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When I try to install php 5.3 stable from source on Ubuntu (downloading compressed installation file from http://www.php.net/downloads.php) and I run ./configure I get this error:

configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

Homburg answered 11/11, 2013 at 10:30 Comment(1)

Related: How to fix PHP installation when xml2-config is missing? – Mcmaster 12/11, 2014 at 14:30

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All you need to do instal install package libxml2-dev for example:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

On CentOS/RHEL:

sudo yum install libxml2-devel

Homburg answered 11/11, 2013 at 10:30 Comment(9)

I'm using centos 6.4, for me the package was called libxml2-devel – Greenes 17/5, 2014 at 19:27

the same error is for installing php 5.5 in centos 7 – Homburg 13/8, 2014 at 8:7

for the error in centos 7 run: sudo yum install libxml2-devel – Homburg 13/8, 2014 at 10:43

Does anyone know why the dev version is required over the standard libxml2 package? – Decarbonize 27/8, 2015 at 14:42

@JLewkovich I'd assume it's because the dev version contains the source code or something. As far as I can tell, if you compile something from source you must also have the source code for all it's dependencies. – Ahner 10/10, 2015 at 10:56

This answer still applies to PHP7 for any PHP7 experimenters coming here – Deas 11/10, 2015 at 5:41

I install php7.10, and my libxml2-dev is installed, but the same error occured. – Witte 15/12, 2016 at 9:45

I get libxml2-dev : Depends: libxml2 (= 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5) but 2.9.4-1+deb.sury.org~xenial+2 is to be installed – Commonweal 17/2, 2018 at 22:42

This command allowed me to install R packages XML and rlist since they depend on libxml2 to work. – Pathan 23/10, 2019 at 18:27

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For the latest versions it is needed to install libxml++2.6-dev like that:

apt-get install libxml++2.6-dev

Bolan answered 13/2, 2016 at 13:32 Comment(1)

This did the trick for me when trying to compile Zabbix 6.4 from source on Ubuntu. – Cha 23/11, 2023 at 21:21

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I had the same issue when I used a DockerFile. My Docker is based on the php:5.5-apache image.

I got that error when executing the command RUN docker-php-ext-install soap

I have solved it by adding the following command to my Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libxml2-dev

Halvah answered 26/12, 2018 at 12:7 Comment(0)

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Ubuntu, Debian:

sudo apt install libxml2-dev

Centos:

sudo yum install libxml2-devel

Lorimer answered 6/2, 2020 at 12:39 Comment(0)

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this solution it gonna be ok on Redhat 8.0

sudo yum install libxml2-devel

Medwin answered 16/12, 2019 at 2:11 Comment(0)

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OpenSuse

"sudo zypper install libxml2-devel"

It will install any other dependencies or required packages/libraries

Rainey answered 1/4, 2020 at 18:8 Comment(0)

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