This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.
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This describes the steps required to configure multiple PHP versions on your development system, if you have issue using the AUR package. Normally one may install the AUR package on a custom path, .e.g, /usr/local/php, but if you are like me having some issues with that you might want to try a custom compile.
Pay attention to step 6) as this is where any required extensions are enabled. For this setup we generally need pdo and mysql extensions.
Download PHP version 5.3.13 (or any version that you are interested in) from http://php.net/releases/
Download the php53 AUR package from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/php53/
Do you use an usb mouse and keyboard and have laptop_mode installed under your Arch linux ? Then maybe you have the same problems as me - mouse and keyboard getting inactive every 2 seconds or so.
To solve this, go to /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d and copy usb-autosuspend.conf to /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/board-specific.
After that run lsusb and get the ID of the usb device you want, e.g., 093a:2500 .
Open the board-specific/usb-autosuspend.conf file and find the AUTOSUSPEND_USBID_BLACKLIST conf option.
Put the desired usb IDs there. You might need to run sudo laptop_mode afterwards to reload the configs.
