I need to compile few application and I need Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library (PCRE). Under CentOS I can use a package called pcre-devel, but Debian do not have the same. How do I install pcre-devel under Debian / Ubuntu Linux?
Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of “wrapper” functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h. To install PCRE, type thy following command:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev
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thank you sir!
Hi, I’ve got a problem to install pcre in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘cuz I’m getting error message that the is not found. Do I need to enable/add some repository ?
Thanks anyway …
Hi, I’ve got a problem to install pcre in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘cuz I’m getting error message that the package is not found. Do I need to enable/add some repository ?
Thanks anyway …
Have you tried to update before installing.
it resolved my problem
I install passenger 3 for Ubuntu 11.04, error:
PCRE could not be downloaded
Thank you!
Saved me a lot of trouble.
I have problem in install pcre. I give command in my terminal it saying,
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?.
You have to be root to install
thank you for solving my problem, i am using Lubuntu12.04 and want to install Nginx, when it appears a problem that says i don’t have a pcre lib.