Zend Framework(ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework was conceived in early 2005 while many new frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails and the Spring Framework, were gaining popularity in the web development community. ZF was publicly announced at the first Zend Conference in October 2005.

In this article, we will tell you how to install the Zend Framework 1.10.2 in Ubuntu.

For Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04

Open Terminal and execute the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zend-framework/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install zend-framework

For Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Open the Terminal and execute the command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then, add the lines given below and save and close.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zend-framework/ppa/ubuntu <version> main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/zend-framework/ppa/ubuntu <version> main

Note: Replace <version> with hardy for 8.04, intrepid for 8.10 and jaunty for 9.04.

After that is done, execute the following commands in the Terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install zend-framework

Check out our next article in this series in order to find out where these Zend library files get installed on your ubuntu machine and how to get started with Zend development in Ubuntu.