libcurl on php4?

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> I am trying to configure my (gutsy) laptop's apache to be exactly like
>> my production server, which is a non-ubuntu machine.  The only php
>> module i seem to be missing at the moment is CURL.  searching my
>> repositories the only package that seems relevant is php5-curl.  How
>> do I set up curl for php4?
> 
> I read somewhere php4 wont be supported on Gutsy anymore. Please verify.
> Try to search in Gutsy backports, or try to setup a self-compiled 
> environment.

Another clean but overkill solution is to use Xen (or Qemu or 
VirtualBox) virtualisation in order to have a stadalone system.