This is a cheat sheet on getting PHP5 on OpenBSD to have zip support. I needed this to get CiviCRM to work with Joomla. First off install some require packages, including the zziplib package: export PKG_PATH=http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/i386/ pkg_add -v zziplib pkg_add -v autoconf-2.62 Now download and extract the PECL zip package: mkdir /usr/local/src/ cd /usr/local/src/ wget …