ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/gnupg/configure’ failed | gnupg installation Failed

Hello ,

While installing gnupg on cPanel server

pecl install gnupg

root@Hostripples.com [~]# pecl install gnupg
downloading gnupg-1.3.6.tgz …
Starting to download gnupg-1.3.6.tgz (19,273 bytes)
……done: 19,273 bytes
5 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20100412
Zend Module Api No:      20100525
Zend Extension Api No:   220100525
building in /root/tmp/pear/pear-build-rootCcCij8/gnupg-1.3.6
running: /root/tmp/pear/gnupg/configure
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /bin/grep
checking for egrep… /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /bin/sed
checking for cc… cc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether cc accepts -g… yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor… cc -E
checking for icc… no
checking for suncc… no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together… yes
checking for system library directory… lib
checking if compiler supports -R… no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,… yes
checking build system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix… /usr/local
checking for PHP includes… -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory… /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525
checking for PHP installed headers prefix… /usr/local/include/php
checking if debug is enabled… no
checking if zts is enabled… no
checking for re2c… no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk… gawk
checking for gnupg support… yes, shared
checking for gnupg files in default path… not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the gpgme distribution
ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/gnupg/configure’ failed

To resolve this error you will need to first install gpgme-devel

yum install gpgme-devel

Once its install you can run the command again

pecl install gnupg

Verify gnupg extension with php.

root@hostripples.com [~]# php -i | grep gnupg
gnupg
gnupg support => enabled

Vishwajit Kale

Vishwajit Kale blazed onto the digital marketing scene back in 2015 and is the digital marketing strategist of Hostripples, a company that aims to provide affordable web hosting solutions. Vishwajit is experienced in digital and content marketing along with SEO. He's fond of writing technology blogs, traveling and reading.

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