[nzlug] Installing conflicts on Debian/Ubuntu

[Hadley Rich]

On Friday 01 September 2006 07:30, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> The packages are listed as conflicting for a good reason - you can't
> (easily) have both php5 and php4 installed alongside one another in a
> single apache instance. There is a concurrent patch you can apply, but
> Ubuntu haven't used it.  I suspect even if you manage to get both
> versions installed, apache won't like it.
>
> If you *really* need to keep php4 around (and from what I've seen, you
> probably don't need to from a technical point of view), I'd suggest
> building it from scratch and running a new apache on a different port or
> using two machines (perhaps virtual machines), in both cases behind a
> reverse proxy or something if needs be.

You could run PHP4 as cgi without conflicting with PHP5 php4-cgi doesn't 
conflict with any PHP5 packages (on Debian at least). By far the best idea 
would be to ditch any apps that require PHP < 5 :)

hads

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