Re: apt-get install php4 -- broken packages?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

will@dontUthink.com wrote:
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  php4: Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.9.1) but 1.3.12-2.0.potato.1 is
>to be installed
>E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>"to be installed"? apache_perl *is* installed...

Read "installed" as "installed or upgraded", just like 'apt-get
install'.

>there's no way to get php4 working with apache > 1.3.9?

It seems to be possible in unstable:

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ dpkg -p php4
  Package: php4
  Priority: optional
  Section: web
  Installed-Size: 997
  Maintainer: Petr Cech <cech@debian.org>
  Architecture: i386
  Version: 4.0.4pl1-1
  Replaces: php4-dev (<< 4.0.2-6)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1), libdb2, libmm11, libpam0g, libpcre3, zlib1g
  (>= 1:1.1.3), mime-support (>= 2.03-1), apache-common (>= 1.3.14-2),
  apache-common (<< 1.3.14.1), fileutils (>= 4.0-5)

Not with the php4 in stable, though, since apache-1.3.9 was all there
was in unstable. I imagine this is a question of modules compiled
against one version of apache not being compatible with other versions,
so maybe you could try installing apache-dev and compiling php4 from
source.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]