This one time, at band camp, Charles Fry said: > >>Can you be more specific? I would like to file a bug, if it hasn't been > >>done already. I took a brief look earlier this week, and was unsure just > >>where this was coming from. I can look deeper, of course, but thought > >>I'd check if you had already tracked it down. > > > > > >steve@gashuffer:~$ apt-cache show php4 > >[snip] > >Depends: libapache-mod-php4 (>= 4:4.3.10-9) | libapache2-mod-php4 (>= > >4:4.3.10-9) | caudium-php4 (>= 4:4.3.10-9), php4-common (>= 4:4.3.10-9) > > > >No bug necessary, you just have to look at the dependencies. So, to > >install php4, you either need libapache-mod-php4, libapache2-mod-php4, > >or caudium-php4. The fact that apt chose the caudium route probably > >meant that it was an easier to satisfy dependency (guesswork - I didn't > >delve into that side of it. > > > >Just apt-get install php4 $webserver-php4 to get the right modules. > > Hmm. The thing that bothered me is that cadium was installed even though > libapache2-mod-php4 was already installed. (Please reply to the list - no need to send me duplicate copies) Right, but the installed version doesn't satisfy the versioned dependency. It still does the right thing when asked to, but this may be a bug in apt's dependency resolution. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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