Package Manager error

[DGiless]

here is the error message I get when starting the package manager...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gzinflate() in d:\easyphp\www\smf\Sources\Subs-Package.php on line 155

It worked yestaerday 
can some one tell me what mistake I did an how to remedy ?

[pulpitfire]

hmm...has anything changed in your server settings or source code?

[phantom99b]

i get the same message .... the only thing i did was what [Unknown] suggested to fix the img bug

[[Unknown]]

You need zlib for the package manager to work properly.

-[Unknown]

[DGiless]

Thanks [Unknown] , that fixed it.

I don't know how this setting switched itself off...

[martp]

I'm having the same problem (and it worked before, too )
[Unknown] what is zlib?

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

zlib is a zip/unzip library... it is needed to decompress the package before installing it.

[[Unknown]]

It's also compiled with PHP at least 80% of the time, I would estimate.

You should ask your host to recompile PHP with zlib...

-[Unknown]

[martp]

My host says evrything is in place with zlib. And it worked a while ago...  Can it be something else?
PHP Version 4.3.2,
Configure Command     './configure' '--with-apxs=/opt/apache/bin/apxs' '--prefix=/opt/php4' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-ttf=/usr/include/freetype' '--with-mysql=/opt/mysql' '--with-pgsql=/opt/pgsql' '--with-mcrypt=shared,/usr' '--with-zlib=shared,/usr' '--with-mnogosearch=/opt/search' '--enable-sysvshm=shared' '--enable-sysvsem=shared' '--with-curl=shared,/opt' '--with-bz2=shared' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-discard-path' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-config-file-path=/opt/etc' '--disable-ctype'

[[Unknown]]

http://www.php.net/function.gzinflate

As you can see this function should be available in PHP 4.0.4 and above, as long as zlib is compiled in.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zlib.php

If you don't have the function available, PHP is not configured properly.

-[Unknown]

[figmentium]

just a quick question in regards to this zlib thing, because my package manager isn't working either and I get the same error. I have redhat 8 and php 4.3.4.

If I want to compile the zlib thing into it ... can I just go into the original php folder that I got the ./configure files from and just do it over? Or do I have to turn off stuff (like apache)? ...just wondering if I can just reinstall it on the fly.

my original ./configure was like this...
./configure --with-apxs=/var/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql

I just have to add in the zlib stuff and i'm good right?... and 'make' and 'make install'

I tried doing this before but it didn't compile in. I don't know how to "uninstall" php and start over

[[Unknown]]

Well, you do this:

$ ./configure --with-apxs=/var/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql --enable-ftp --enable-sockets --with-zlib

(the blue is just additional options I might recommend.  There's also gd, and jpeg, and png, etc.... but those require other libs.)

And then you have to make it, like so:

$ make

Difficult, isn't it ?  At this point, you'll have to shut down Apache - for just a minute - and then, as root, make install.  Like so:

$ su
$ /etc/init.d/httpd stop
$ make install
$ /etc/init.d/httpd start
$ exit

And to uninstall PHP - which you don't need to do and I don't recommend!!

$ su
$ make uninstall
$ exit

-[Unknown]