Installing phpsh on linux, Python error - linux

Question

I'm trying to install phpsh on Ubuntu and I did everything on the install guide, but I am getting this error:
Starting php
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/phpsh", line 47, in <module>
verbose=opts.verbose)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/phpsh/__init__.py",
line 503, in __init__
self.php_open_and_check()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/phpsh/__init__.py",
line 641, in php_open_and_check
self.php_open()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/phpsh/__init__.py",
line 698, in php_open
preexec_fn=os.setsid)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Why am I getting these errors? How do I install phpsh on linux?

Answer 1

Open ~/.bashrc from the terminal using:
linux#terminal:vi ~/.bashrc
set PYTHONPATH and path in there:
export PYTHONPATH=~/lib/python2.6/site-packages
//Put the above value as your site-packages directory location,
//yours may have a different python version number.
Then add ~/bin to your PATH as well as per your directory structure.

Answer 2

Walkthrough on installing phpsh on linux
The phpsh install guide at (http://www.phpsh.org/) site only gives you part of the details to get this up and running on linux.
The Gotchas:
phpsh won't run on your system if you don't have PHP configured properly.
phpsh won't run correctly if you don't have python configured properly.
If gcc is not properly setup, then phpsh will not install correctly.
You may need the python development headers for phpsh to work.
Here are all the specific steps I did to install phpsh on a Fedora 17 box
cd /home/el
sudo yum install php
sudo yum install php-posix
sudo yum install python
sudo yum install python-devel
git clone git://github.com/facebook/phpsh.git
cd /home/el/phpsh
sudo easy_install readline
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
Open up your /home/el/.bashrc in an editor and add this line at the bottom:
export PYTHONPATH="/home/el/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
Make sure that the directory exists before you paste it in there. You may have to change the python2.7 to a different number to reflect your actual version. Restart the terminal.
Then, FINALLY, it runs as advertised:
el#defiant ~ $ phpsh
Starting php
php> echo "sweet lady freedom lets make out! " . 1337;
sweet lady freedom lets make out! 1337
php>
Then see my post to take a test drive of this tool: How to use the PHP interactive shell
Notes if you are adapting this to other flavors of Linux
You may have to use python-dev instead of python-devel.

Answer 3

I was also getting this issue last day as I am a new learner of PHP. At last I figured out problems.
You must need to install php5-cli from apt-get before installing phpsh.
Also keep in mind that required python packages should also be installed. For that go to https://github.com/facebookarchive/phpsh.
I assume you already have python and you are using Ubuntu 14.04 or above. While installing the python packages you may get some other errors, as it may require you to install easy-install etc. But don't worry, you will get very verbose errors that will tell you exactly what to do.
Hope this solves your problem.

Answer 4

Sooooooooooooooooo I had this problem too.
phpsh is checking for php on your system & not finding it.
$ sudo apt-get install php5
This is partially a matter of poor logging. See the lines in the Traceback:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/phpsh/__init__.py",
line 641, in php_open_and_check
self.php_open()
The kicker was that I tried sudo apt-get install php which now obviously didn't work, but for some reason I didn't keep at it!