[wp-testers] Karmic Server & WordPress 2.9-rare

[Aaron D. Campbell]

You need zlib not pclzip.  The error refers to gzopen which is part of zlib.
http://php.net/manual/en/zlib.installation.php

Scott Evans wrote:
> Well I know that I should just stick with what works! but I like to
> experiment...
>
> I've recently updated my Ubuntu Server install from Jaunty to Karmic
> Alpha6, I also decided to move over to WordPress 2.9-rare. Since
> upgrading the server I'm now getting the following error on any plug-in
> updates "Abort class-pclzip.php : Missing zlib extensions"  So this is
> most likely a breakage in Ubuntu Server, I do have the package
> libphp-pclzip installed, Now from what searching I have done on this
> particular issue seems to relate back to early versions of WP 2.7 (ish)
> prior to the auto update functionality. 
>
> So can someone please point me in the right direction to attempt to
> resolve this issue! I've become quite accustomed to the auto update and
> I'm disliking having to manually do it!
>
> this is also impacting XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.1.6
> resulting in the following fatal error...
>
> Errors, Warnings, Notices
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function gzopen()
> in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php on line 1711
>
>
>
> System Info: 
>
> Operating System : Linux
> Server : Apache
> Memory usage : 21.81 MByte
> MYSQL Version : 5.1.37-1ubuntu4
> SQL Mode : Not set
> PHP Version : 5.2.10-2ubuntu4
> PHP Safe Mode : Off
> PHP Allow URL fopen : On
> PHP Memory Limit : 256M
> PHP Max Upload Size : 50M
> PHP Max Post Size : 50M
> PHP Max Script Execute Time : 180s
> PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
> PHP IPTC support : Yes
> PHP XML support : Yes
>
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