how to install libssh2 on Centos + pecl

Solution 1:

to install libssh2 on centos follow the next steps:

1. download libssh2 from the official website (look for in google - i don't have reputation and can't post but 1 link)

2. extract it somewhere, then open a terminal and go in the folder where you extracted it and type these commands

   ./configure
   
   make
   
   make install
   

ALSO

you can install the rpmforge repos from DAG from here:

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/

(check your version, if you're on i386 you'll probably have to get the "Red Hat EL 5 - i386" one)

then do a

yum install libssh2

Solution 2:

You need libssh2-devel not just libssh2. Here's a little shorter version

yum install libssh2-devel
pecl install ssh2-0.12