On 1 Aug 2008, at 11:38, mbm wrote:
Hmm. That's interesting. I'd never known there would be a difference in behaviour between "aptitude install" and "apt-get install". But after your email I tried it and got the following:
aptitude install php5 php5-cgi
I believe aptitude has been the recommended tool to use since etch was released (possibly before) particularly for upgrading between versions.