Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 13:38:22 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
> I actually had tried installing it anyway but no go:
> 
> # aptitude install php5
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No candidate version found for php5
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> 
> backport.org appears to be an ad site,

The correct site is http://www.backports.org/

backport.org seems to be run by some typosquatter, to serve ads to
people who make mistakes when typing the URL.

>                                        but what are good things to add
> to sources.list? My current is just the default:
> 
> # less /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://ftp.freenet.de/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

Instructions are here:

http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions

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Regards,
          Florian