I've just upgraded my VM to Ubuntu 14.04, and my OCI8 PHP driver has stopped working.

I've tried to install/upgrade it, but it doesn't work. That's the error messages I get:

marc@sf2:/build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/pear-build-download$ sudo pecl install oci8

downloading oci8-2.0.8.tgz ...

Starting to download oci8-2.0.8.tgz (190,854 bytes)

.........................................done: 190,854 bytes

could not extract the package.xml file from "/build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/pear-build-download/oci8-2.0.8.tgz"

Download of "pecl/oci8" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive

Error: cannot download "pecl/oci8"

Download failed

install failed

I've "untared" the file oci8-2.0.8.tgz without problems and the package.xml is there... What can I do to fix this? Must I revert to Ubuntu 13.10? Because I need oci8 for my job to be done...

Thanks for your help!

EDIT:
I've found the problem: PECL isn't working on Ubuntu 14.04 and OCI8 must be installed from source or using a phar package. I'm still looking for information about how to install it.

EDIT 2:
I've found it!

1. Download and extract the oci8 library from PECL repository (http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8)


2. Run the phpize command to create the build scripts


3. With the InstantClient installed, run ./configure -with-oci8=shared,instantclient,$ORACLE_HOME


4. Finally, run a make install and /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

All this information is taken from the PHP OCI8 Installation Guide (http://php.net/manual/en/oci8.installation.php)