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Version: 2.5.8

LibMCrypt is a standardized library to MCrypt — which replaced the old Unix crypt() package. Dependency for compiling PHP.

Get the Code

Switch to /usr/local/src and download the source package.

cd /usr/local/src
curl --location --output libmcrypt-VERSION.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mcrypt/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz

Extract the archive and move into the folder.

tar -xzvf libmcrypt-VERSION.tar.gz
cd libmcrypt-VERSION

Compile and Install

Configure, compile and install into /usr/local/libmcrypt-VERSION.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libmcrypt-VERSION
make
make install

Create a symbolic link that points /usr/local/libmcrypt to /usr/local/libmcrypt-VERSION.

ln -s libmcrypt-VERSION /usr/local/libmcrypt