On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:38:14PM -0600, Andrew Linsenbardt wrote:
> January 5, 2005
>
> So yeah, I've got a fully updated (as far as I know) Debian box running
> my website and I'd like to get phpWebsite installed on the system,
> however it apparently doesn't want to run because I have PHP 4.1.2
> installed rather than the required 4.2.2. Is there an easy way to get
> that installed through the apt-get system? I've had problems trying to
> get recent packages for Debian (...that's why it's so stable, eh?) and
> I'd really like to get that one on there if possible!!!
>
> Thanks for any help!
> Andy
>
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> Andy Linsenbardt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://andyl.homelinux.net/
Options:
1) Convert from woody to sarge -- effectively updating the whole
system slightly before sarge is declared the new "stable." A
lot of people in situations like yours have done this. I did it
for the workstation in my office, but not for some of my oher
servers.
To do this, change /etc/apt/source.list and replace the word
"stable" with "sarge". When sarge becomes the new stable, you
can change the word back or continue to track it by sarge.
Then: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
You'll get php 4.3.10 this way.
2) Find a backport. I didn't see one on www.backports.org
although that is generally a good place to look. It looks like
http://www.formorer.de/~formorer/devel/backports.org/php4.3.4/
has a backport. I can't vouch for the origin. The files report
to have been created by Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
but they have no gpg signature. You might try to follow up on
that (they are probably okay--depends on your level of personal
paranoia).
3) Use 'apt-get source' to grab the php4 source from Sarge and
compile it yourself. You'll need a deb-src line in
/etc/apt/sources.list. This is probably better left to experts
(i.e. options (1) and (2) are better than this one) for complex
packages like php4. It often works quite well for simple
packages, though.
4) Take some free space on your server, and install a chrooted
Debian sarge system. Run apache there instead, or a second a
second apache (on a different port with the 1st apache acting as
proxy) and the new php4. Install your phpWebsite there until
Sarge is released and you upgrade your main files.
The proxy solution is nice because it lets you leave the
original site up until you have the second configured. Then you
can install the proxy rules.
5) Download php directly from the php folks and compile it
yourself.
There are probably other options as well.
--
Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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