Magento

According to http://www.magentocommerce.com/system-requirements, there are a couple of extensions that need to be installed.
I only need to install PDO/MySQL, mhash and mcrypt. The other extensions are installed by default.
I use Ubuntu Server 7.04.

If I want to install mcrypt for PHP, can I just do this?:

Or do I have to install it like the examples at ONLAMP (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/07/26/encrypt.html?page=3)?
They use:
1. Download the Mcrypt library
2. gunzip mcrypt-x.x.x.tar.gz
3. tar -xvf mcrypt-x.x.x.tar
4. ./configure --disable-posix-threads
5. make
6. make install
7. cd to your PHP directory.
8. ./configure -with-mcrypt=[dir] [--other-configuration-directives]
9. make
10. make install

The first option seems the easiest one, but I don’t know if that’s the correct one.

if it’s possible use the apt-get method.

downloading the source and compiling it means that you have to do this for each new version.

maybe you have to active universe or multiverse sources in your sources.list ...

... but this forum is for sure not the right place to discuss this… there are many sites describing how to ...

... for german users: wiki.ubuntuusers.de

... for german users: wiki.ubuntuusers.de

fricking Germans!

I installed it using

For the PDO/Mysql I used this article:
http://paradigma.pt/ja/slog/index.php/2006/10/pdo_mysql_ubuntu_error_fixed.html