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How to Install APC on a Fresh Ubuntu Install

APC speeds up PHP, and will be built into php6. But before then here is how to install APC on a freshly installed Ubuntu box:

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apt-get update

apt-get install libpcre3-dev #an APC dependency

apt-get install php5-cli

apt-get install php5-dev

wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar #downloading pear, the php package manager

php go-pear.phar #installing pear

pecl install apc



vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini #edit your php.ini and add extension=apc.so

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart #restart apache to reload your php.ini file

test by running <?php phpinfo(); ?>

APC is installed. Enjoy your speedup.