Trying to Install PDO_SQLITE on Ubuntu

• PDO_SQLITE supports SQLite 3.x databases. The other relevant APT package supported by default in Ubuntu, php5_sqlite, only supports the 2.8 format.
• There is a package called php5-pdo-sqlite from dotdeb.org. However, installing this package implies the uninstall/upgrade of vast amounts of LAMP-related stuff! And, by the way, this is a quote from wiki.ubuntu.com, “MERGE ON PAIN OF DEATH.” dotdeb.org packages have been considered “highly experimental.”
• No php*pdo* package was found by me even on the Unofficial APT repositories.
• Downloaded PDO_SQLITE directly with wget http://pecl.php.net/get/PDO_SQLITE-1.0.1.tgz.
• The documentation at PDO_SQLITE-1.0.1/sqlite/README ‘suggests’ that need to install the following packages: make, autoconf and libtool—and of course a c compiler.
• The make process did not produce anything recognizable to me. There were warning messages throughout and finally a “stop” message. All the above packages will be removed.
• This experience will be considered a tiny rite of passage.

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