Installing php datastax driver on ubuntu

Question

I am trying to install the datastax php driver for Cassandra and when i run the following command:

pecl install ext/package.xml

after checking it out of git i get the following message:

configure: error: Unable to load libcassandra

ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/cassandra/configure' failed

Can anyone point me in the right direction in order to successfully install this driver please?

version of cassandra i am using is 2.1.8 so maybe the driver has not been updated to connect to the latest version of cassandra.

Ravioli

What does your config.log file say? Should be located in the directory where it is building in. – Denishadenison

cc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'. not quite sure what im looking for config.log – Ravioli

any help would be much appreciated – Ravioli

what shell are you using? have you tried bash? – Indeed

i havent tried bash as i thought the standard terminal is required. – Ravioli

When i start the cqlsh i get a native protocol once ive connected should that be thrift protocol? – Ravioli

i got this today as well – Signorino

basically i need to have the c++ driver installed before i run the pecl command. im pretty convinced that thrift is the way forward but this is used as a workaround. – Ravioli

it seems the installation of the cpp-driver did not do the trick – Ravioli

medium.com/@Renjthvr/… – Steger

Answer 1

This has been resolved there was an issue with the incorrect php.ini not being referenced in phpinfo().

Ravioli

Answer 2

The following steps worked for me. YMMV.

$ uname -a
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Install some prereqs (removed libuv-dev from the list):

$ sudo apt-get install g++ make cmake libssl-dev libgmp-dev php5 php5-dev openssl libpcre3-dev

Trying to install libuv-dev right now will result in the following error:

libuv depends on libc6 (>= 2.14); however: Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.13-38+deb7u8.

Wheezy seems to have a slightly older version of libc6. Step up to Jessie to get 2.14. Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

After running the following commands, these services will be restarted: mysql, exim4, cups, cron, atd, apache2

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libc6
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Download and install the following files:

$ wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/libuv_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb
$ wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/libuv-dev_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb
$ wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra-cpp-driver_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb
$ wget http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libuv_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libuv-dev_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cassandra-cpp-driver-dev_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb

Download and install the DataStax Cassandra PHP extension:

$ git clone https://github.com/datastax/php-driver.git
$ cd php-driver
$ sudo pecl install ext/package.xml 

Add the extension to php.ini:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=cassandra.so" >>/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini'

Restart Apache:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Confirm Cassandra appears using <?php phpinfo();

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