Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Andy McKenzie wrote: > > Can I just mention, as so many others have, how much I hate the fact > that this list is configured to not reply to the list by default? I know. Actually, the only reason it's like this is because a lot of people will take the convers

Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > Remember to hit reply-all, Andy, so it goes to the list as well as > the previous author. > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Andy McKenzie wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:20

Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bergstresser
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:05 PM, John Iliffe wrote: > type php --version > > There are two - preceding the word version. Apparently, the version of PHP installed on 12.04 accepts "-version". The version of PHP installed on 12.10 does not, and bombs without giving a proper error message. Go

Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread John Iliffe
On Thursday 14 February 2013 14:20:06 Chris Bergstresser wrote: > Hi all -- > >I've got a cloud server on Rackspace. If I bring up a fresh Ubuntu > 12.10 machine image, and type "apt-get install php5" it seems to > install fine. But if I then type "php -version" I get "PHP Parse > error: sy

Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Brown
Remember to hit reply-all, Andy, so it goes to the list as well as the previous author. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Andy McKenzie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Bergstresser >> wrote: >>> Hi all -- >>> >>>I'v

Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Bergstresser wrote: > Hi all -- > >I've got a cloud server on Rackspace. If I bring up a fresh Ubuntu > 12.10 machine image, and type "apt-get install php5" it seems to > install fine. But if I then type "php -version" I get "PHP Parse > error: syntax

[PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bergstresser
Hi all -- I've got a cloud server on Rackspace. If I bring up a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 machine image, and type "apt-get install php5" it seems to install fine. But if I then type "php -version" I get "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in Command line code on line 1". What