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configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

I got this error when trying to configure php 5.2.6: configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation. I’m using Debian and it showed that I had libxml2 installed (and it was the latest version). It turns out

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dev/null, screen, and ptmx permission problems in xen vps

I got switched to a Xen VPS (debian linux) recently and discovered that some applications couldn’t write to /dev/null. It turns out that /dev/null was actually only readable and writable by root. I logged in as root and changed the

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