MJ Ray writes:
Isn't the version got by "apt-get install php4 php4-pgsql" good enough for
you? reply - package php4-pgsql has no installation candidate
apt-get install task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-c-dev
reply - 8 million dependencies that aren't going to be installed.
apt-get source php4 cd <directory it unpacked to> grep Depend debian/control apt-get install <any bits it needs that you haven't got> debuild binary dpkg -i <package it just made that you want>
reply - debian/control No such file or directory. Not sure where i go wrong, but every time I try installing anything this happens, and I finally give up in a temper. It happened with rpm last week, postgresql7 last week, - oh, i did manage apache, wow. I must be making life much more complicated than it really is here. I can see a bcc package on the debain site, no cc.
David freeman writes:
Why PHP?
reply - firstly, it was mentioned in a casual kind of a manner on irc that in order to build web pages one had to learn php (i thought it was by you, actually!). secondly, it has now been recommended by my bro' as a neat simple solution to manipualting info in a web page. Thirdly, i don't speak c and can't write shell scripts, and were I to learn i'd probably have an even worse job trying to compile the c compiler! Out of the frying pan into the fire. Thanks, Jenny.