@ akh2103 I assume that you already have a problem, but I am leaving this answer here because someone else has this problem.
I just suffered from the same problem. For me, I installed it in a related directory
eg ~ / Download is actually enabled / media / 1234 / Data / Downloads
For some reason, when I transferred all my downloads to another hard drive, the other day the permissions were haywire.
After I moved the xdebug source file to my ~/.Desktop and unpacked it there, I ran
chmod -R 0755 x-debug/
and then launched phpize
Then I could see a configuration file that did not appear when I tried to do this on another hard drive.
Hope this helps anyone affected by this issue.
John
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