Installing Gearman PHP Extension 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 LTS from pecl

I started off nice and easy:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gearman-developers/ppa 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gearman-job-server libgearman-dev gearman-tools php-pear php5-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev uuid-dev -y
pecl install gearman

Bug then I hit: configure: error: libgearman version 0.21 or later required

To fix it I needed to compile a newer gearman from source, which in turn has another couple of issues with Boost.

To fix this for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

sudo apt-get install libboost-program-options1.40-dev libboost-thread1.40-dev -y

For Ubuntu 11.04:

sudo apt-get install libboost-thread1.42-dev libcloog-ppl0 libboost-program-options-dev -y

For Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04:

sudo apt-get install libboost-thread1.46-dev libcloog-ppl0 libboost-program-options-dev -y

Now compile should work, in order for libgearman requirement to be met for pecl:

apt-get install uuid-dev libevent-dev -y
wget https://launchpad.net/gearmand/trunk/0.28/+download/gearmand-0.28.tar.gz
tar xfv gearmand-0.28.tar.gz
cd gearmand-0.28
./configure
make && make install
sudo ldconfig

If you want to use the newly compiled gearmand, you need to edit /etc/init.d/gearman-job-server to include /usr/local:

prefix=/usr/local

Retry pecl install and install module into php:

sudo pecl install gearman
echo "extension=gearman.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/gearman.ini